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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. - Roland Barthes
Attribution: Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French semiologist. “Modern,” The Pleasure of the Text (1975).

Categories: Language, Semiologist

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