Abstract:

The most important representative of semiotics, whose foundations were shaped on Saussure's theory of signs and Propp's structuralist views, is A. J. Gremias. Stating that the narrative is a whole consisting of form and content, namely the signifier and the signified, Greimas states that the content can be reached by starting from the form. He states that a narrative must be divided into sections in order to reach the deep structure from the surface structure, and says that each section is a whole on its own, and this whole is a part of the whole narrative. Greimas emphasizes that the meaning in the narrative will arise from binary contrasts, pointing out that with the semiotic quadrilateral model he developed, the logical-semantic whole in the deep structure can emerge from binary contrasts. In this study, it will be tried to apply Greimas' semiotic analysis method to Ziya Gökalp's Alageyik poetry tale and to reveal the deep structure in the narrative based on the surface structure. Before the application, the concepts used by the semiotic method will be emphasized, and then the solution of the meaning in the narrative divided into sections will be revealed with the semiotic quadrilateral model. With this study, it will be shown that the semantic structure of the text can be revealed by applying semiotics, which can be applied in all areas of life such as cinema, politics and advertising, to a literary work.

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