Análisis semiológico de la obra La cofradía del mullo del vestido de La Virgen Pipona, de la escritora ecuatoriana Alicia Yánez Cossío

Abstract

This paper deals with the degree of semiotic stories analysis applied to La Cofradía del mullo del vestido de la Virgen Pipona work of Ecuadorian writer Alicia Yanez Cossio. This analysis considers that the least significant unit is the lexia, the syntagmatic group sentence which display is determined in a specific environment. This method of analysis was created by the French semiotician Roland Barthes since a deep investigation which started from the meaningful proposals by Ferdinand de Saussure. Lexias constitute a new perspective on the textual structure; its significance is determinated on specific chronotopes that Alicia Yanez, used by the northern highlands in the early twentieth century. La Cofradía del mullo del vestido de la Virgen Pipona reveals difficult political, religious, social aspects that the reader is focused on the esthetic taste, in the cultural recognition, and in the searching of claim. A reading analysis by lexias (semiotic analysis) it contributes with intellectual development.