'''Roland Gérard Barthes''' ({{IPAc-en|b|ɑr|t|}};<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/barthes "Barthes"]. ''[[Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary]]''.</ref> {{IPA-fr|ʁɔlɑ̃ baʁt|lang}}; 12 November 1915 – 26 March<ref>Roland A. Champagne, [http://books.google.gr/books?id=6gJ-8LjAZvAC&dq= ''Literary History in the Wake of Roland Barthes: Re-Defining the Myths of Reading''], Summa Publications, Inc., 1984, p. vii.</ref><!--Britannica Online Encyclopedia gives 25 March--> 1980) was a [[France|French]] [[literary theory|literary theorist]], [[philosopher]], [[Linguistics|linguist]], [[critic]], and [[Semiotics|semiotician]]. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including [[structuralism]], [[semiotics]], [[social theory]], [[design theory]], [[anthropology]] and [[post-structuralism]].
