PAULO COELHO'S VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE: SEMIOTICS STUDY

Received: 23rd November 2023; Revised: 8th January 2023, 17th February 2023, 04th April 2023; Accepted: 11th April 2023

Authors

  • Doaa Taher Al-dihaymawee Ph. D., Lecturer, Department of English Language, College of Education, The Islamic University, Najaf, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20319/pijss.2023.91.4049

Keywords:

Charles Sanders Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure, Paulo Coelho, Semiotics, and Veronika Decides to Die

Abstract

Veronika Decides to Die is one of Paulo Coelho's best-selling novels, through which he describes in details what is happening inside the wall of mental hospitals. The novel was first published in 1998. The researcher selects this novel as there is no study has been done so far in analyzing Veronika Decides to Die from a semiotics viewpoint. There are two main Semiotics theories, one is represented by the Swiss linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure and another is represented by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. Peirce's triadic theory of icon, index and symbol. The latter has been selected as a tool in answering the research question of: What are the main signs in Coelho's Veronika Decides to Die?

References

Barthes, R. (1967). Elements of Semiology. London: Jonathan Cape.

Calosa, K. (2004). Book Review: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho. BA Philosophy (01-33340).

Cobley, P. & Jansz, L. (2000). Introducing semiotics. UK: Icon Books.

Coelho, P. (1992). Veronika Decides to Die. UK: Harper Collins Publishers.

Nöth, W. (1990). Handbook of semiotics. Indiana: Indiana University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv14npk46

Pauzan, A. (2018). A Semiotic analysis of the John Wick 1 Film Using Charles Sanders Peirce’s Semiotic Theory. Indonesia: Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar.

Prakoso, B. S. & Daulay, R. (2020). Behavior changes in Paulo Coelho Veronica Decides to Die: a psychological approach. Notion: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Culture, 2(2), PP. 90-95. https://doi.org/10.12928/notion.v2i2.2880

Prior, P. (2014). Semiotics. UK: Routledge.

Saussure, D. F. (1993). Course in general Linguistic. London: Duckworth Ltd.

Sebeok, T. (2001). Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics. Canada: The University of Toron to Press Incorporated.

Solithatun, N. (2018). Semiotic analysis in Clear shampoo commercial advertisements. University of Sumatera Utara.

Stamper, R. (N.D.). A Semiotic theory of information and information systems. Netherlands: University of Twente.

Tsotra, D., Janson, M., & Cecez-Kecmanovic, D. (2004). Marketing on the internet: A semiotic analysis. Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems. New York: New York.

Downloads

Published

2023-07-13

How to Cite

Al-dihaymawee , D. T. (2023). PAULO COELHO’S VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE: SEMIOTICS STUDY: Received: 23rd November 2023; Revised: 8th January 2023, 17th February 2023, 04th April 2023; Accepted: 11th April 2023. PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences, 9(1), 40–49. https://doi.org/10.20319/pijss.2023.91.4049

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023): Regular Issue

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2023 Doaa Taher Al-dihaymawee

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.