Semantics
Seyed Asghar Musavi; Akbar Shabani; Batul Fakhreslam; Parvin Dokht Mashhoor
Abstract
Semiotics is studies the sign systems, the process of interpretation, the meaning and the truth hidden behind the codes, signs and symbols. This knowledge has considerable applications and functions in various areas of human relations. Literature, including children's literature is one of the most important ...
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Semiotics is studies the sign systems, the process of interpretation, the meaning and the truth hidden behind the codes, signs and symbols. This knowledge has considerable applications and functions in various areas of human relations. Literature, including children's literature is one of the most important of these areas. Using Roland Barrett's views, this study tried to analyze the children's poems of Salman Harati with an analytical-descriptive method. The results showed that Harati's poems, due to such issues as reference to various fields of natural and ideological elements, pristine, simple and intimate nature, outstanding temporal and spatial coordinates, and social themes and idealistic discourse, is able to produce various codes, and consequently various meanings and interpretations. Although these characteristics are directly related to the readers’ abilities, they show that when assessed by the interpretation mechanisms of codes and analysis of other semiotic elements, his poems have a structured and thoughtful semantic structure. The action and effect of the logic of conversationalism in his poetry is another factor that provides the reader with space and the possibility of reproducing content in the process of innertext and outertext interpretations. The narrative in Harati’s poetry, as an integration factor of vertical axis, has produced a variety of codes. This process, with regard to the remarkable manifestation of the codes of narrative, hermeneutic and symbolic action, demonstrates the narrative capacity and the signifier nature of his poetry. Meta-examplar implications in Harati’s poems cause objective and clear associations and effectively involve metatext in the interpretation and analysis of signs.
Semantics
Eshrat Ishanagha; Mohammad Fazeli; Mohammadali Sharifian
Abstract
Attar's use of images and the creation of various and creative images is one of the features that allows his works to be analyzed for common discourse analysis. In his works, Attar has used imagery to express the themes and terms of judgment and philosophy more effectively in creating beauty. The images ...
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Attar's use of images and the creation of various and creative images is one of the features that allows his works to be analyzed for common discourse analysis. In his works, Attar has used imagery to express the themes and terms of judgment and philosophy more effectively in creating beauty. The images in Attar's works serve to expand the concepts in the story and add to the beauty and ambiguity in the text, so it is necessary to examine them in a methodical way. Attar's view of the image is beyond the literary system and is also a worldview. He believes that the world is an image of the true beauty, which reflects all the beauties of the beloved, and it is easy to see the qualities of the true beauty in the world and creatures. Using visual semiotics, this research has investigated the codes in the images used in Attar's Masnavis. At the beginning of the process, some images are studied and the features of the visual system in the images are checked as much as possible, and in the next step, the implied meanings are checked and pointed out, so that the role of the images in creating beauty and completing the conceptual discourse desired by Attar be revealed in his works.
Fatemeh Nemati
Abstract
Adopting a humanistic, communicative-based approach to semiotics, this paper aims at investigating the status of linguistic signs and their interaction with other communicative signs. The status of linguistic sign is first studied in semiotic theories spanning ancient, middle ages and modern era. Based ...
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Adopting a humanistic, communicative-based approach to semiotics, this paper aims at investigating the status of linguistic signs and their interaction with other communicative signs. The status of linguistic sign is first studied in semiotic theories spanning ancient, middle ages and modern era. Based on the commonalities envisaged in four contemporary semiotic theories done in the spirit of the two overarching semiotic paradigms of Peirce and Saussure, a working definition of linguistic sign is proposed: all the linguistic units in their different literal and non-literal usages are signs, given the existence of a human interpretant. Linguistic sign, on a par with other nonlinguistic communicative signs, can well be the subject of study in semiotics. In every communicative event, linguistic and nonlinguistic signs are interacting to different degrees and taking into account the different codes (logical, social or aesthetic) of their occurrence, the prominence of each type of signs in communication leads to a different interpretive experience.
