زهرا غفاری

 Semiotics is the science of analyzing texts with care in the use of signs. Due to its extensive branches and comprehensive field of study, semiotics is one of the sciences that is meaningless without knowing the dominant codes and the main approach. One of the extensive branches of semiotics is the cultural approach. Cultural semiotics, as the main factor in achieving intratextual socio-cultural approaches, examines the hidden layers of the text and studies signs as codes that denote a specific thought and attitude within the text. Yuri Lotman's cultural semiotics is an example of layered semiotics in the dimensions of culture, identity, society, thought, and the foundations of life. In this approach, culture is examined as a factor that identifies the thoughts and internal dimensions of society. Since the layers and axes of this type of semiotics are extensive, their implication for a specific topic and a specific content depends on the dependence of the signs on the dimensions of language and content, and if only one of these dimensions is paid attention to, the main goal of this approach, which is to achieve intratextual insights and social indicators, will not be achieved. The main goal of this research, in line with the main goal of the cultural semiotics approach, is to recognize the semantic-content layers and social dimensions and intratextual attitudes. To achieve the aforementioned goals, methods based on the axes and patterns of Yuri Lotman's cultural semiotics approach have been used. In this method, analysis tools such as examining codes, axes of the confrontation between self and other, chaos in order, creoleization of meaning and speech, etc. have been used to examine the axis of speech and content. The results of the research indicate the existence of multi-layered semantic dimensions within the content axis, and the word becomes multi-layered to include multiple content, and the complexity of the word and content contexts exists equally in the structure of the work. Saedi has realized the dimensions of multiple content in the work Birds in the Barn by using multiple language contexts.

Keywords: Semiotics, Cultural Semiotics, Yuri Lotman, Gholamhossein Saedi, Birds in the Barn