Semiotic ladder: the schema of producing meanings in narrative
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Mohammad Ali Mahmoodi
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Fatemeh Savab
Abstract
A model called the “semiotic ladder,” which consists of “consecutive semiotic squares,” is proposed in this paper, through which the meanings of the deep structure of a narrative can be depicted as fluid and dynamic. It shows the stages of producing meanings in the narrative, from beginning to end. To see this, several narratives in the epic and mythological genres are analyzed in order to discover their abstract and deep structural meanings, and to prove the dynamic nature of meaning in the semiotic ladder. According to the analysis, the process of the semiotic ladder depicts the displacement and fluidity of narrative meanings using consecutive semiotic squares, and this pattern can be applied to and implemented in all narratives. Also, the semiotic ladder allows us to clearly observe the pattern of movement of the narrative subject schema in the path of accomplishing the object.
Funding source: Iran National Science Foundation
Award Identifier / Grant number: 98029253
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Research funding: Supported by “Iran National Science Foundation (INSF)- Code: 98029253”.
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- Funktionskreis, Gestaltkreis, and Situationskreis in the context of integrated medicine
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Structural semiology, Peirce, and biolinguistics
- Funktionskreis, Gestaltkreis, and Situationskreis in the context of integrated medicine
- Semiotic ladder: the schema of producing meanings in narrative
- The “intentional function” in still and moving photographic images
- Analyzing polysemiosis: language, gesture, and depiction in two cultural practices with sand drawing
- The emergence of post-narrativity in the era of artificial intelligence: a non-anthropocentric perspective on the new ecology of narrative agency
- Notes on two contemporary myths: free internet and user activity on digital social networking sites
- Ritualism and disempowerment of education: social semiotics of the educational experience of young Iranian girls
- Can we really free ourselves from stereotypes? A semiotic point of view on clichés and disability studies
