Journal of Literary Criticism

Journal of Literary Criticism

Analyzing the Interaction of Semio-discursive Components of Dance in Qashqaei Folk culture:A Study in Tartu School’s of Semiotics

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Reza Rezaei
Assistant professor of Linguistics , Faculty of Humanities, Yasouj University - Yasouj -Iran
Abstract
As one of the prominent dramatic arts, dance has always occupied its symbolic place among Iranian ethnicities’ rituals. In this soci-cultural and ethinc phenomenon representing mythical presence, dancer carries a historico-cultural message that is in constant relationship with live experience , myths , beliefs and rituals of the ethnic groups. as the southern inhabitants of Iran , Qashqaei clan take the advantage of dance in order to create an aesthetic –affective scene. So , Qashqaei’s dance finds its discursive functions and establishes a coherent relatioship with the fileds of “ to make” and “ to be” . Research method is descriptive-analytical . To be curious about the semio-discursive components necessitates the statement of the problem.By relying on the theoretical foundations of Tartu school’s of semiotics , The author aims at analyzing the semio-discursive components of Qashqaei’s dance with all the perpetual –corporal properties which pave the way to the process of semiosis for meta and trans –narrative interactions.All these properties are crystalized in Qashqaei’s dance as a passage from every day life’s practices to meta-linguistic and meta-narrative discourse. The results showed that this type of dance makes its major contribution to produce and encode a kind of meta-language illustrating the tensions of every day life’s practices of clan through a multi-dimensional enunciation in its own semi- sphere. Thus , Qashqaei’s dance results in synesthesia in several respects. Finally , Qashqaei’s dance as a generator for all the semiotic productions is characterized at narrative , ethical , existential and phenomenal levels.
Keywords
"Dramatic arts"
"Qashqaei’s dance"
"Body"
"Trans-narrativity"
" Popular culture"
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Journal of Literary Criticism
Volume 4, Issue 8
October 2020
Pages 207-181

  • Receive Date 27 May 2020
  • Revise Date 14 July 2020
  • Accept Date 19 July 2020