LEVELS OF SEMIOSIS WITH THE VICTORIAN HOUSE AS A SIGN IN 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELS
LEVELS OF SEMIOSIS WITH THE VICTORIAN HOUSE AS A SIGN IN 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: This paper is an attempt to illustrate the lexico-semantic level of semiosis, that is, we shall mention the synonymous terms relating to the concept of ‘house’, those terms embodying the representamen/sign vehicle/signifier, together with their semantic significations, so that we may illustrate the vast material that 19th-century English novels offer for our present approach. In order to understand the way in which the concept of the “house” signifies on the pragmatic level of semiosis, we should take into consideration such aspects as: who uses the house, how the house as an object is used by various subjects (owners, inhabitants, guests, servants) and the specific purposes for which the house is used. In order to better understand the way in which the pragmatic level of the semiotic process works, we should also include the syntactic level of signification, a level that helps us establish the relations between object (house) and (humans) subjects, relations mainly based upon the paradigms of “need”, “desire” and “power”.

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