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Analysis of Duha Kocaoglu Deli Dumrul Narrative within the Framework of Literary Semiotics
(Turkish Studies: International Periodical for the Languages, Literature, and History of Turkish or Turkic, 2018) Kalelioğlu, Murat; Günay, V. Doğan
Oral narrative tradition dates back centuries, and it has a great variety of rich culture and colorful motives in literature. Within this cultural wealth, one of the most significant works of art is Dede Korkut narratives accepted as the oldest epic tales belonging to Turks which are the stories that can be shown as the earlier examples of oral literature in Turkish culture. The common point of the tales is to have fantastic expressions. The heroes are Turks, and they usually fight against different actants which can be real or abstract. Moreover, the tales put forward the form of life, moral and cultural values in Turks’ life. Among the tales, one of the most outstanding tales of Dede Korkut is The Story of Delu Dumrul that is read and interpreted in the sense of semiotics. In this study, we handle the struggles and testings of Deli Dumrul as an actant within the context of Paris Semiotic School’s actantial schema. It is a fact that folk tales have some special features such as good is always rewarded while bad is punished. By adhering to the literary semiotics perspective of the school, it is the point of departure of this research to reveal if the situation is valid for this epic tale. At the end of the research, the validity of the general fact belongs to the folk tales stated above is partly actualized in Deli Dumrul narrative. The state of the result in the narrative is solved by taking the support of the supernatural forces and religious values. In this case, the positive ending of the narrative depends on fulfilling the function of both belief and religion positively in the society.
Creating Society in Orwell’s 1984: A semiotic analysis of the notion of social transformation
(Chinese Semiotic Studies, 2018) Kalelioğlu, Murat
In this paper, the idea of constructing a new society in George Orwell’s 1984 is analyzed in the context of the Paris School’s semiotics trajectory. Saussurean legacy, which heavily sheds light on the semiotic conception of the school proposed by Greimas, asserts the significance of dichotomies for signs to gain their meaning. Accordingly, the study is grounded on the desired and non-desired contrariety to make the analysis with the semiotic square meaningful. It is possible to encounter the traces of the proposed idea pertaining to the struggle of forming an ideal society at all levels of meaning, predominantly at the deep level as the proposed idea represents the elementary meaning of the narrative, throughout the text. Considering the approach, desired society gains its meaning in the face of the non-desired one relativistically. Regarding the opposition theory of Saussure, what is good for the Party is not supposed to be good for the Opponents. For this reason, the idea of creating society is on the battleground, as there is an uphill fight between the ruling Party and the Opponents. The formation of desired society is revealed thanks to the semiotic square by focusing on both positive and negative transition processes. The really interesting aspect that we encountered is the vicious unended cycle and the war that will never end between the stated groups within the framework of the ideology/axiology perspective.
Göstergebilim Kuramının Genel Bir Değerlendirmesi, Türkiye’deki Yeri ve Önemi
(Söylem Filoloji Dergisi, 2021) Kalelioğlu, Murat
Günümüzde, birçok alanda üretilen anlamlı yapıları çözümleme yetisine sahip olan göstergebilim kuramı, gücünü aldığı temellerden dolayı, dünyanın birçok yerinde üretilen bilimsel çalışmalarla gerek bilimin gerekse günlük yaşamın farklı alanlarına uygulanabilmektedir. Geçmişte sadece nesneleri, olgu ve olayları temsil eden göstergeleri üretmekle sınırlı olan gösterge çalışmaları bugün artık göstergebilim kuramı adı altında eğitim bilimlerinden sağlık bilimlerine, fen bilimleri ve matematikten filolojiye, güzel sanatlardan sosyal ve beşeri bilimlere bilimin değişik alanlarında bilimsel bilgiyi üreten ve üretilen bilgiyi yeniden anlamlandıran bir yöntem hâline gelmiştir. Bu çalışmada uluslararası ölçekte akademik çevrelerde kabul gören, kendi gelişimini kendisi destekleyen, diğer bilim dalları ve alt alanlarıyla olan ilişkisinden dolayı farklı dizgeler arasında disiplinlerarası çalışmaların önünü açan çağdaş göstergebilim kuramının genel bir değerlendirmesi yapılmış ve kuramın üretilen çalışmalar çerçevesinde Türkiye’deki yeri ve önemi tartışılmıştır.
A Literary Semiotic Reading: Kuyucaklı Yusuf
(Chinese Semiotic Studies, 2018) Kalelioğlu, Murat
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A Literary Semiotics Approach to the Semantic Universe of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018) Kalelioğlu, Murat
Semiotics can be considered as a well-organized signification journey taken among the pages of the work of art. It requires background knowledge related to the field and its analysis tools, as well as careful reading practices in the text to reach the projected destination after stopping over in certain stations. These stations represent meaning intersections where the meaningful formations are articulated to contribute to the generation of the semantic universe of the text. The presentation of such a fictional universe can be complicated because of the nature of the literary work and the language used. With regards to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, what makes its fiction precious is the masterful acts of the author in both paradigmatic and syntagmatic dimensions.This book conducts a semiotic analysis in order to unfold the enigmatic semantic organization of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four narrative by penetrating the formative structures at various meaning levels of the text.
Multidisciplinary Approach to the Texts: Semiotic Analysis of the Process of Meaning Construction in O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi
(2018) Kalelioğlu, Murat
Semiotics covers a broad range of subjects since it has an enchanting multidisciplinary frame from language and culture to philosophy and science. Whatever the subject area is, the primary purpose of semiotics is the signification of all types of signs produced by societies. Language and literature which reflect the cultural richness of societies are the critical outcomes of that production process. Those disciplines are firmly relevant to the field of semiotics since they are formed with linguistic and non-linguistic signs. Regarding the analysis of the products, it is considered to gather various methods and combine them rationally to examine the texts with a multifaceted approach. Accordingly, it is determined to analyze the production process of the semantic universe of O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi in this study. The research has been carried out by taking advantage of the data from narratology and semiotics. Primarily, the text has been evaluated within the scope of narratology; first, it has been attempted to account for the narrative considering the theory of enunciation and then to put forward the basic structure of the text according to Larivaille’s five-staged narrative profile. Subsequently, in the analysis of the text, it has been made use of literary semiotics; at this point, the constituent elements of the narrative in different semantic stratums have been scrutinized as part of Paris School’s semiotics trajectory. In this regard, we had the opportunity to observe the formative elements of the text at the surface and deep levels of meaning and to explain how these elements are articulated with each other to create the fiction of the narrative as a meaningful whole. Greimas’s four-staged narrative programme, actantial schema, and semiotic square have been practiced in the analysis of the formative elements taking place at various meaning levels of the text. As a result, it has been attempted to find answers to the questions of how O. Henry created the semantic universe of the text, and of what the role of culture was in the creation of meaning in this universe.
NARRATIVE SEMIOTICS AND THE CITY: THE PLACE OF THE CONCEPT OF 'CITY' IN ITALO CALVINO'S INVISIBLE CITIES
(İstanbul Üniversitesi, 2021) Kalelioğlu, Murat
The significant element is the subject of enunciation −author− considering literature and practice of writing. The author struggles to combine images via language and generates a semantic universe throughout the process in the system of literature. This universe is generated with systematic sequences of signs. The artwork, which has been qualified as being a specific message, turns into a sign just as Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities (1972) is analyzed by the end of that generative process. The theme of the narrative is the image of happy cities, which have been lost in distorted and unhappy ones. In this way, the subject of enunciation establishes a link between symbolic cities and real cities, and he makes a tangible reference to the realities of urban life. The author of enunciation builds the semantic universe of the narrative on the dichotomy of happy and unhappy cities. These cities, where cultural exchange is realized, are described as a clearing place of desires and memories and are the protagonist of the narrative rather than the decor. Through the study, a semiotic analysis of how the meaning generation process is structured will be carried out by adhering to the theme of the narrative. Also, the place of the ‘city’ concept in Calvino’s narrative will be questioned.
A narratological analysis of O. Henry's "the ransom of red chief"
(NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 2020) Büyükkarcı, Orhun; Kalelioğlu, Murat
The studies within the frame of classical narratology have remarkably contributed to the field of narrative analysis. The significance of the present study is to raise awareness of constructive elements of a narrative using classical narrative analysis. This study aims at investigating character, time and space in O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief", using the narratological terminologies in the analysis. Considering the current situation of narratology as a method of analysis that involves many approaches towards a high number of aspects in a narrative, the study focuses on the essential constructive elements of the story and point of view. The employs the theoretical terminologies offered by classical narratologists. Findings in the study fall into two categories: Narration and narratorial position of the narrator, and formative elements of the story. These categories present three essential formative components, (a) Characters and characterization, (b) space, and (c) time. The data gathered from the findings indicated that O. Henry's achievement might lean on the prevalence of a reliable narrator using discourse time more for the narration of incidents between the characters than that of others in specific types of space with humoristic style as well as situational and verbal irony. This study allows for critical implications both on the readers who wish to understand O. Henry better and on the researchers calling for an increase in the number of narrative studies.
Semiotic analysis of the affective domain of discourse: Projection of emotional transformations
(2021) Kalelioğlu, Murat
Literature 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 Jacques Fontanille, who is one of the representatives of Paris School of Semiotics.
The Theory of Signification: Semiotic Criticism and Literature
(International Journal of Language Academy, 2017) Kalelioğlu, Murat
As a signification theory, semiotic criticism attracts considerable interest from researchers in different disciplines. Literature is one of the fields where the theory is used for signifying practices. Literary semiotics has emerged as a sub-discipline as a result of the efficient interaction between semiotics and literature. The process of meaning creation in texts can be elucidated through literary semiotics. Semiotics has idiosyncratic rules and concepts in its system to accomplish its goal that bars new researchers from benefiting the theory’s data in penetrating and unfolding different meaning stratums. This paper will argue the critical steps and tools of a systematized semiotic analysis within the process of signification to overcome such obstacles. The relationship between language and literature, literary semiotics and analysis tools will be addressed through the discussion of the historical development of sign studies within the scope of semiotics as a signification theory.

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