Semiotic Analysis of the Affective Domain of Discourse: Projection of Emotional Transformations

Year 2021, Volume: 27 Issue: 106, 471 - 488, 07.05.2021

Murat Kalelioğlu

https://doi.org/10.22559/folklor.1310

Abstract

tLiterature is one of the most important representations of the artistic field, which
is constructed by an extraordinary sequence of verbal and nonverbal signs. Short
story is one of the genres of this area in which encountering various kinds of signs is
possible through the production process. There are umpteen signs in relation to the
attitudes of narrative persons in such stories. In such short story narratives, which
are a linguistic message, many indications about the behavior and attitudes of the
narrator can be encountered. These indicators are behavioral-emotional indicators
that reveal the mood of narrative figures such as joy, enthusiasm, sadness, crying,
hugging, and hugging. Nonverbal signs, sometimes, do not make sense alone.
However, they are meaningful when they are used in a particular context to support
the verbal signs, which displays contribution of the nonverbal signs to the meaning
established with the verbal signs. What is significant here is the harmony of using
nonverbal signs in conjunction with the verbal ones. If that congruence exists, the
produced message becomes stronger and increases its effect; otherwise, the power
and impact of the message decrease. Hence, the message becomes meaningless. In
this study, how the affective domain of discourse is produced in short stories, and
the contribution of nonverbal signs in the construction of meaning and emotional
field is investigated. The research is carried out pursuant to the possibilities offered
by semiotics of discourse approach, which explores and clarifies the inner world
of the subject of enunciation, who produces discourse, the changing mood, and the
forms of expressions of the subject in different situations and events in narratives.
Throughout the study, affective domain of discourse and the stages of it –affective
awakening stage, disposition stage, passional pivot stage, emotion stage, and
moralization stage– are examined pursuant to semiotics of discourse approach,
elaborated by

Keywords

semiotics of discourse, affective domain of discourse, Maupassant

Semiotic Analysis of the Affective Domain of Discourse: Projection of Emotional Transformations

Abstract

Keywords

semiotic of discourse, affective domain of discourse

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