Analysis of Nafsatolmasdoor from the point of view of cultural semiotics

Abstract

Cultural semiotic is a concept which counts as an earlier matter for analyzing which always have been created by semioticians in order to choosing cultural elements. This science analyzes the mental and material methods which have created for better realize from own culture and other cultures, so they are not face to just single culture and mostly engaged with relations among the cultures, therefore, one of usage of this science is to analyzing texts that hosts one or several cultures. writing text of Nafsatolmasdoor book by Zeydari-ye Nasavi is such text that have written because of reporting chaos made by presence of Mongolian in Iran which counts as a multi-cultural text. So in this essay we try to analyze Nafsatolmasdoor’s text from Cultural semiotic point of view by descriptive and analyzing method. For this goal after definition of theorical concepts related to cultural semiotic and Tartu school pattern we try to positioning own and others culture’s place in mentioned book’s text and then how to representing language codes, quantity, act, religion, means and architecture in relation with own and others will be analyzing under this essay. The results of research suggest that majority rioted on system and this majority mostly related to codes with literature imaginary structure and much more tangible in this section.

Keywords

• cultural semiotic
• cultural self and other
• codes
• nafsatolmasdoor