Abstract
The purposes of this study are to find out the elements of narrative and the function of narrator in Jun Chiu’s silent comic Crop Circles. This research applied qualitative design. The data of this study were in the form of 20 pictures taken from the silent comic. The data were collected through stages: finding out and determining, classifying and separating the pictures conveying illustration of a narrative. The analysis of the data was done qualitatively by using the theory of phase analysis by Miles, Huberman and Saldana covering condensation, display and verification. The research results show that the elements of narrative found in Jun Chiu’s comic pictures Crop Circles narrative mood (transposed speech-indirect style); narrative instance (narrative voice: heterodiegetic narrator, time of narration: simultaneous narration; narrative perspective: external focalization), narrative levels (embedded narrative, metalepsis) and narrative time (order: analepsis, narrative speed: ellipsis, frequency of events: singulative narration). The narrator carried ideological function because the narrator illustrates the pictures to introduce public policy.
Highlights
Semiotics is the study of signs and it is one of applied linguistic branches
Narrative semiotics discusses about sign relationships contained in narrative and one of the studies in narrative semiotics is narratology or in other words narrative theory (Marsen et al, 2003)
This project is an attempt to analyse narrative elements found in silent comics of Jun Chiu’s Crop Circles by using narrative theory proposed by Genette (1980)
Summary
Semiotics is the study of signs and it is one of applied linguistic branches. Signs take the form of words, images, sounds, odours, flavours, acts or objects but such things have no intrinsic meaning and become signs only when we invest them with meaning. Narrative semiotics discusses about sign relationships contained in narrative and one of the studies in narrative semiotics is narratology or in other words narrative theory (Marsen et al, 2003). This project is an attempt to analyse narrative elements found in silent comics of Jun Chiu’s Crop Circles by using narrative theory proposed by Genette (1980). He notes that there are four categories of narrative elements narrative mood, narrative instance, narrative levels and narrative time. Narrative time consists of three kinds: order, narrative speed and frequency of events
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