The Sign Found in The Movie “Mr Harrigan’s Phone”

The title of this research is “The Sign Found in The Movie Mr Harrigan’s Phone”. This research has difference with the other previous. Previous research was analyzing kind and function. This research analyzes types and meaning by Peirce and Barthes. Previous research used action, adventure, and fantasy movie genres. This reseach used horror and drama genres. The purpose of this research are observe and provide information to readers about the types and inform the meanings contained in the movie "Mr. Harrigan's Phone". Therefore this research can inform the reader's about sign systems contained in the movie “Mr. Harrigan's Phone” and this research can be expected a reference for readers as to learn the sign. This research used qualitative method by Creswell to analyze the data. This research has 2 problems. The first is type used Peirce's theory. Peirce has three types of signs namely icon, index, and symbol. The results of the identification in the Mr Harrigan's Phone movie get 5 icons, 5 indexes and 5 symbols. The second is the meaning. This study used Barthes' theory to identifying meaning. Barthes has 3 system namely denotation, connotation, and myth.

本研究的研究标题为《电影〈哈里根先生的手机〉中的符号》。本研究与既往相关研究存在差异：既往研究多聚焦于符号的类别与功能分析，而本研究则借助皮尔斯（Peirce）与巴特（Barthes）的符号学理论，从符号类型与意义两个维度展开剖析。既往研究选取动作、冒险与奇幻类电影作为分析样本，本研究则采用恐怖与剧情两类电影体裁开展研究。本研究的研究目的在于，观察并向读者阐释《哈里根先生的手机》中蕴含的符号类型与意义，向读者介绍该影片中的符号系统，并可为读者学习符号学相关知识提供参考依据。本研究采用克雷斯韦尔（Creswell）提出的质性研究方法对研究数据进行分析。本研究共设置两个核心研究问题：其一为符号类型分析，皮尔斯将符号划分为三类，即图像符号（icon）、指示符号（index）与象征符号（symbol）。经对《哈里根先生的手机》进行符号识别后，共得到5个图像符号、5个指示符号与5个象征符号。其二为符号意义分析，本研究借助巴特的理论开展意义识别工作，巴特将意义系统划分为外延（denotation）、内涵（connotation）与神话（myth）三个层级。