A Psycho-semiotic Analysis of Pride in Jane Austen’s Literary Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice

This paper analyzes the way signs and symbols represent pride, a primarily social phenomenon felt in response to accomplishments with soc-ial or moral significance, as one of the main personality features in psychology in Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice" adaptation of ۱۹۹۵. It has been suggested that pride is divided into two emotions: hubristic pride, which leads to arrogance and smugness, and genuine or true pride, which encourages confidence and fulfillment. Some selected pictures taken from the adaptation are analyzed using a Psychosemiotic approach, which is the study of processes and symbols regarding a psychological concept. It can be a conduct, activity, or process that involves psychological signals communicating intentional or unintentional meaning. Pride is examined through the use of Kress and van Leeuwen’s multimodality introduced in their book titled as "Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design." Each image is analyzed in three stages of representational, interactive, and compositional with subcategories of narrative or conceptual for representational images; contact, distance, and point of view for interactive meaning, and information value, framing, salience, and modality are considered for compositional images. Consequently, this paper reveals the items and elements of a scene as the representors of a concept, in which case pride is demonstrated as a personality trait.

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Psychosemiotic analysis ، pride ، Jane Austen ، literary adaptation ، Pride and Prejudice