Analysis of Sign System the Main Charter Lou Anne Johnson on the Movie "Dangerous Minds"

Abstract

In this research, the writers discuss semiotic analysis in the word of the main character Louanne Johnson on the “Dangerous Minds†movie. The aims of this research are to find out the context and classification of iconic, indexical and symbolic sign to understand about sign system of meanings. In order to focus on the topic, the writers limit the data, the writers use qualitative-descriptive and Pilah Unsur Penentu (PUP) as the method. The writers use one philosopher’s theories, Charles S. Peirce’s theories to identify the word of the main character Louanne Johnson portrayed in iconic, indexical and symbolic sign. The writers would like to present semiotic analysis which covers iconic, indexical and symbolic sign. The writers analyse of signs system from the script “Dangerous Minds†movie. There are iconic, indexical and symbolic signs. The amounts of the entire word are about 33 word of signs system. The first dominant type of iconic signs gets 19 words. The second dominant type of indexical signs gets 32 words and the last dominant type of symbolic signs which gets 33 words. This data are based on potentially fulfilling words Peirce’s theory.