Investigation of Narrative Structures with Semiotic Approach: Night Exercise Screenplay

Abstract

Semohcs is a scientific approach semiotics that examines the types of signs, the factors present in the process of production and exchange and their interpretation, which began with a lecture by the famous linguist Ferdinand de Saussure at the University of Geneva.Narrative is a technique that is manifested in different forms in literary texts in the form of narrative structures. Its nature or realm is in the world of text. Narrative, despite its ability, needs to be present in the heart of narration, so it borrows from signs. This article examines the narrative of Abbas Kiarostami’s Night Exercise Scenario and the narrative structure of the story and the differences in its narrative style and visual presentation. The use of signs in Kiarostami’s works is seen visually in the form of landscapes and visual structures, and even the use of music and names of characters. Accordingly, in this research, in a new way and with a different attitude, the difference in the visual method of the narration has been considered.