Saussure's insistence on the arbitrariness of the sign also has influenced later
philosophers and theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Jean Baudrillard.
In‘African Grammar', an essay from his book Mythologies(1957), Barthes unmasks popular descriptions of French colonies
in Africa(people under colonial rule are always vaguely described as‘population'; colonisers as acting on a‘mission' dictated by‘destiny') to show how they function as a disguise for the reality of political cruelty.
In"African Grammar," an essay from his book Mythologies(1957), Barthes unmasks popular descriptions of French colonies
in Africa(people under colonial rule are always vaguely described as the"population" and colonizers as acting on a"mission" dictated by"destiny") to show how they function as a disguise for the reality of political cruelty.