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VOL. 7, ISSUE 5 (2021)
An image analysis of “Rocking-horse” in the rocking-horse winner from the perspective of lotman’s semiosphere theory
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Huang Yuchan
Abstract
The Rocking-Horse Winner is a short story written by the English writer D.H. Lawrence in his later years. It deeply reveals that in the industrialized capitalist society, people are dying for money. Family affection and love no longer exist. Only the greed and endless desire for money are left. The rocking-horse is a symbol of complex and various meanings in the text. From the perspective of semiotic theory, text is a relatively independent sign system, which has the function of generating meaning. Its heterogeneity makes multiple interpretations possible, and the topics involved are also issues of universal humanistic concern, which will trigger readers from different sign systems to interpret it, and will increase the possibility of multiple interpretations. This paper analyzes the diversified symbol interpretation of rocking-horse and how the dynamic changes of the symbol meaning promote the development of the plot from two aspects--external text and internal text by using Lotman's Semiosphere Theory.
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Pages:18-21
How to cite this article:
Huang Yuchan "An image analysis of “Rocking-horse” in the rocking-horse winner from the perspective of lotman’s semiosphere theory ". International Journal of English Research, Vol 7, Issue 5, 2021, Pages 18-21
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