The Narrative Syntax of the Little Prince: a Semiotics Analysis  

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Tanusy, Jeanyfer

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 14 : Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Keempat Belas, page 58-62.
Topik: Semiotics; Narrative syntax; Children book; Actantial model; Narrative quest model
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Stories have always fascinated people of every age, place, and social class. A story, whether it is a fictional or nonfictional narrative, is something that cannot be separated from humans’ lives as people, without realizing it, tell stories when they speak about their experiences. A narrative comes in a lot of structures—from the simplest ones such as stories for children to the most complex ones like histories—and for so many years a lot of people are interested in finding if there is one structure that underlies every structure of stories. These narratologists invented theories and developed them to find this universal structure applicable to every narrative structure, and some of them claimed that they have found one. This article focuses on applying the two of the narrative syntax theories proposed by Algirdas Greimas to find the basic structures of fairy tales, namely the Narrative Quest Model and the Actantial Model, to analyze a children’ story written by a French Author Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince, which, despite the title, is not a fairy tale. As Greimas’ claims to have found theories which are applicable to all narrative structures, the writer is interested to see whether the two chosen theories are indeed applicable to a modern story. The theories are not used to explore the theme or the message that underlies the story; instead it focuses mainly to find the basic structure of the narrative as trajectory and the schema or paradigmatic connection among the major elements in the story. The research uses descriptive qualitative approach in which the data are obtained through a series of thorough reading before the story is redacted into a summary. Afterwards, the summary is divided into smaller narrative units using the Narrative Quest Model and the major elements and characters of the story are selected based on their functions in Greimas’ Actantial Model.

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