R. BARTHES'S PHILOSOPHY: TEXT AND SIGN
The article is devoted to R. Barthes's philosophical legacy. It was demonstrated that Barthes sought to analyze the linguistic component, to identify the objective transformations that a language undergoes within the act of communication, to reveal the layer of secondary «connotative» meanings of language, which is a carrier of socially and historically determined meanings. It is considered Barthes's turn from the idea of a set of meanings realized at the level of perceiving text to the idea of multiple meaning existing at the level of text.