A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS ON SIGNS OF THE ENGLISH CHESS GAME

Abstract

This thesis analyzes English Chess Game. This analysis describes how English chess game interprets some messages for the human. This thesis investigates the meaning of the English chess game in the level of denotative, connotative and myth. In describing the meaning, this thesis used Roland Barthes theory as the referential theory of the signs and level meaning of the data. This thesis applies library research in order to get data and information about matter of discussion and it also takes the source from several books, dictionary and internet. The data are in the form of qualitative data that has been gathered using observation. In this thesis, I use the technique of documentary study. It applies observation of the rules, colors and images of the English chess game. In addition, several selected texts are analyzed using syntagmatic and paradigmatic relation theory to explore the correlation between the symbols of the English chess game with the existence Christian influence in the middle age of England. The result of this thesis shows that the English Chess Game has relation with the history of English in the middle age where Christian ideologies influence the social, military, government political life of the empire.