Symbolic Meaning Transfer in Drama as a Type of Active Visual Expression: A Semiotic Approach

Abstract

The interdisciplinary study of meaning and communication concerns based on various sign systems is called semiotics. Theories created by anthropology, visual arts, film studies, semiotics, and other fields have replaced traditional research methods in many subjects. Although semiotics is seen as a single discipline, it is quite heterogeneous in terms of the techniques it uses and the goals it tries to achieve. Semiotics is an interdisciplinary method that is supported by various approaches and developed over various philosophical definitions of a particular object. In drama, audio-visual symbols are language, mise-en-scene, hand-arm movements, clothes, make-up, voice patterns of actors, etc. available with signs. Mime, circus, street theater, and opera can be counted as dramatic performance types. The subject addressed in this study is the analysis of the way semiotics is handled in the field of drama or theatrical works.

Keywords: Semiotics, Sign, Types of Performance, Drama, Theatre

DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/98-04

Publication date:August 31^st 2023