| dc.description.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. | en_US |
