Volume : 7, Issue : 9, September - 2018

THE AMBIVALENT AND INDETERMINATE ROLE OF SIGN, LANGUAGE AND MEANING IN SOME WORKS OF UMBRTO ECO

Mudasir Rahman Najar

Abstract :

<p class="footer" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-ascii-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-hansi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;&#10;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Studying Umberto as a very prolific author with discourses related to history, epistemology, ideology, this paper is to investigate the contribution of the author in highlighting the role of sign in the making of meaning across the textual structures. Eco with distinction has put semiotics along the domain of philosophy and tries to link the relationship of sign with the construction of discourses. His novels mainly focus on the theme of narrating the event and the relative nature of the varied. The main purpose of his novels is to unmask the traditional acceptance of meanings by means of literary discourses. He shows how perception and experience are at war in very process of narrativesin asserting why certain paths are negotiable and othersnot. Eco also addresses the very duality of lying and authenticity of language in the world of journalism. This proves the need of return to journalistic province to explores the profession of journalism and any other literatures on the validity and determination of truth.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>These all literary cum intellectual practices help the scholars in particular and readers in general to live in space conducive for more innovative investigations towards reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>