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3) Barthes frequently uses the language of opposition and duality in order to emphasize the rupture between readerly and writerly texts. Through word choices, such as “divorce,” this duality manifests itself on the level of the sentence structure. I will identify (ISE #5) applications of ISE and DIG that occur on a linguistic level as (+/-). The oppositional word-pairings also mimic the contradiction inherent in establishing a set of rules to analyze an inherently unknowable matrix of meaning.