04099nam 2200709 450 991046098400332120200909225244.01-5015-0265-41-5015-0267-010.1515/9781501502651(CKB)3710000000438866(EBL)2077559(SSID)ssj0001516441(PQKBManifestationID)11887258(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001516441(PQKBWorkID)11494577(PQKB)10851877(MiAaPQ)EBC2077559(DE-B1597)451656(OCoLC)919869947(OCoLC)952807163(DE-B1597)9781501502651(Au-PeEL)EBL2077559(CaPaEBR)ebr11074434(CaONFJC)MIL808354(OCoLC)913334500(EXLCZ)99371000000043886620150714h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHeroizability an anthroposemiotic theory of literary characters /Ibrahim TahaBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter Mouton,2015.©20151 online resource (244 p.)Semiotics, Communication and Cognition,1867-0873 ;Volume 16Description based upon print version of record.1-5015-1081-9 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Literary Characters and Anthroposemiotics -- Chapter One. Author's Circle: Natural Semiotic Characterization -- Chapter Two. Character's Circle: A 3A Model -- Chapter Three. Reader's Circle: Natural Semiotic Response -- Chapter Four. Author-Reader Encounter: A Natural Sharing -- Conclusion. Heroizability: A Communication Model -- References -- Subject index -- Name indexIt is commonly believed that some approaches of structural semiotics, narratology and cognitive science have not yet succeeded in constructing a complete and coherent theory of literary character. The author argues that the primary explanation of the failure is the artificial separation between characters and their actions. One of the chief implications of such separation is treating characters in terms of structures, agents, actants, functions, roles, and signs, which obviously mean that actions can hardly be explained as intended, motivated, performed and experienced. Survival, as a motivation-based concept, is one of the key concepts making the separation between character and action something impossible. Humans in literary narratives search for survival as an aware process of knowing and meaning making. Meaning in literary narratives can be produced by heroizability, which treats literary characters as living anthroposemiotic entities aware of their natural motivation to achieve in order to survive and produce meanings of their survival. As such, characters in literary narratives have active cognitions, and their cognitive activities remain meaningless without a process of semiosis. Applying Anthroposemiotic theory with Modeling System Theory, heroizability provides methodical tools to explain how the narrative text is represented and, thus, how it is to be interpreted properly by the reader not only to find, but also to make meaning in narrative world. Semiotics, communication and cognition ;Volume 16.Iconicity (Linguistics)Characters and characteristics in literatureSemioticsLinguisticsElectronic books.Iconicity (Linguistics)Characters and characteristics in literature.Semiotics.Linguistics.809/.927Ṭāhā Ibrāhīm909008MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460984003321Heroizability2485959UNINA