Pity as an effect of a passionate meaning in "The little match girl" by Andersen

Abstract

The matter is to study the pathemic dimension of the discourse (written and iconic) through of the expression of the passionate effect-sense of pity by comparing different recent versions for young people of Andersen's tale in the form of an album. By turns we will study : the structure of the passionate syntagmatic trial "pity", the pathemic role of "pity", the pathemic role of "self-pity" as well as the iconic expressions of the effect of the sense of pity.

Keywords : pity, cruelty, effect-sense, passion, pathemic roles, icon, semantic