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Klasik Bir Edebî Romanda Nesne Adlarında Kullanılan Göstergelerin Yorumlanması
Interpretation of Signs Used for Object Names in a Classical Literary Novel

Author(s): Selim Yilmaz, Mine KILIÇ
Subject(s): French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Namık Kemal Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi
Keywords: linguistics; sign; object; utterance; enunciation; Emile Zola;

Summary/Abstract: In this article, linguistic signs used for object names in a classical literary novel will be tried to interpret linguistically. The corpus of the study is Claude's Confessions by Emile Zola. This article should be considered as a case study in the field of applied linguistics. The main purpose here is to classify the object names in the literary novel, to interpret them through linguistic signs and thus to examine the connection between the object and the human mind, consciousness short introduction to textlinguistics, various utterances selected from the related novel will be classified in terms of object usage, and and spiritual state. The “Sign System” and “Enunciation” theory in the context of the dichotomy “language speech” by Saussure, constitute the theoretical background of the study. After a in these utterances, the values and functions of different linguistic signs that attach to the object and give it quality will be scrutinized.

  • Issue Year: 9/2021
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 342-365
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Turkish