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I will expose and discuss Barthes’s reading of the glossematic project. Barthes has reformulated some of the most important terms and concepts of Hjelmslev, in a very different version from that project and its scientific program. Though, this non-verbal reading like the one of Greimas, or Derrida.. has participated in spreading and updating several of hjelmslevian concepts. These concepts were seen, at their first appearance, as exaggerating in their abstractness and formal aspect. So the reading of Barthes would have participated in attracting interest towards the Copenhagen structural linguistic circle and its production, more than the works of the glossematic writers themselves. We will focus during the analysis on the attempt to establish the semiology out of the semiotic concept of Hjelmslev. As a temporary research field that could sooner be rejected even by academic institution, instead of a general science with an abstract epistemological aspect, based on its intrinsic coherence. We will give more importance to the denotation and connotation, and also to metalanguage that Hjelmslev borrowed from the logicians and transforms into metasemiotics, but in a new sense.