the study examines, from a visual social semiotic perspective, how actions and movements are used to make ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings in Bizet's opera Carmen. The study also aims to assert the importance of the visual mode of communication as a meaning making system similar to that of language. Moreover, it tends to show how visual social semiotic analysis of dance pieces in opera Carmen reflects on and translates its main literary themes. In order to carry out these goals, the researcher chooses visual social semiotics as a theoretical framework and Martinec's theory of semiotics of action, which has been presented in his (2000 & 2001), as a methodology of the research. |
