Roland Barthes and Discourse Analysis

This paper tries to reflect upon the possibility of a sociological discourse analysis based on the semiological works of the French structuralist thinker Roland Barthes. Thus the main theoretical lines of his famous Structural Analysis of the Tale will be highlighted, as well as his semiological opening to the social in his work Mythologies. Finally, a critical methodology on the limitations of this structural analysis will be outlined from a perspective in which both social actors and concrete contexts may be priorised in th analysis.