Barthe's Enigma Code

Barthe's Enigma Code

1. Proariretic code (the voice of empirirics): The code of actions. Any action initiated must be completed. The cumulative actions constitute the plot events of the text.
2. Hermeneutic code (the voice of truth): The code of enigmas or puzzles.
3. Connotative (or Semic) code (the voice of the person): The accumulation of connotations. Semes, sequential thoughts, traits and actions constitute character. 'The proper noun surrounded by connotations'. 
4. Cultural or referential code (the voice of science (or knowledge): Though all codes are cultural we reserve this designation for the storehouse of knowledge we use in interpreting everyday experience.
5. Symbolic code (voice of the symbol): Binary oppositions or themes. The inscription into the text of the antithesis central to the organization of the cultural code.