Document Type : Original Article
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PhD in Philosophy of Art, Department of Philosophy of Art, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
This article aims to study the work of Sadegh Hedayat by using the ecosemiotics of the short story "The Stray Dog". The short story of the stray dog is told from the point of view of a dog that is gradually separated from its mother, brother and owner, and then is so abused by all other humans that it finally suffers from exhaustion and boredom close to death. The question of the current article is that, based on the ecosemiotics based on Peirce's opinions, how the relationship between the dog and its environment becomes sign. In this article, an attempt is made to show how the dog moves away from a safe, calm and stable environment and falls into an unsafe and dangerous environment with the formation of an interpretation during which the dog sits in the human position. A person who, after being separated from that safe and calm environment, inevitably gives in to isolation from society that he cannot match and therefore, always suffers from the society. Based on the results obtained by this research, with the process of ecological meaning making, the interaction of the dog with its environment in the story of the stray dog goes beyond a direct binary relationship and becomes a triadic relationship of signs, which is rooted in the symbolic triangle intended by Peirce.
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