The semiotic approach of the concept of the Victorian house as a triadic relationship reveals the house as a space of becoming, functioning either as an iconic, symbolic or indexical sign in relation to its inhabitants. The current paper aims at the reconstructiong semiotic process/semiosis through which a house can act as an image for the owner, or can be experienced as a prison, or interpreted as a symbol. Textual support will be provided by 19th-century English novels such as Charles Dickens' Geat Expectations and Dombey and Son, novels written by the Bronte sisters and Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native.

Keywords:

house, space, iconic sign, indexical sign, symbolic sign, semiosis

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31-38

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Research Paper

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Semiotics, Literary Semiotics

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Types of Sign, Speech and Interactional Mechanisms in Communication

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81`22:821.111”18”

DOI:

10.5281/zenodo.495286

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