Under question cultural boundaries: A semiospheric perspective based on enabling aspects of mythical characters

Abstract

Prior to the modern semiotics, the only discipline towards a systematic study of culture was Anthropology. Nowadays, cultural semiotics, as one of the sub-disciplines of semiotics tries to understand the culture and its related issues such as change, and tries to make it explicable by its methods such as participant observation as one of the common methods in ethnomethodology. Language as a social action carries series of codes. In the field study the author has directly observed the codes shared codes of the language between the sender and recipients in the interpretation process. The shared codes are integral parts of semiosphere. The value of these terms and their implication are emphasized in two rural areas called Shahkooh and Gharnabad as new contexts or scenes where the fusion of boundaries takes place. Of course, the words and concepts are not capable to function by themselves; each change is in need of an agent to put the concept of change in action. The agent or mythical figure of this change is a native son of the region who makes an interaction between the concepts of non-text, and text.