CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE SEMIOTIC STUDY: TRIADIC RELATIONSHIP IN THE ALMOND TREES SHORT STORY BY ALBERT CAMUS

Aloysius Gonzaga Koptarico Nugraha

English Language Education, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta

alogonzagaaa@gmail.com

This study is entitled Charles Sanders Peirce Semiotic Study: Triadic Relationship in The Almond Trees Short Stories by Albert Camus. This study examines the icons, indexes, and symbols in The Almond Trees short story by Albert Camus. The triadic relationship between the signs in the short story, which are icons, indexes, and symbols, is what the author wants to clarify and illustrate in this study. The method used in this research is the library method, which involves applying qualitative methods. While the discussion technique is descriptive-qualitative, which explains the discussion based on literary works. The data used consisted of the text of The Almond Trees, a short story by Albert Camus. The results obtained consist of 5 signs in the form of icons, 7 marks in the form of indexes, and 4 signs in the form of symbols.

Keywords: Semiotics, Icon, Index, Symbol, Short Story