An Onomastic Analysis of the Film Assassin’s Creed through a Structural Semiotic Approach

Abstract

           This article explores the use of major proper nouns: title, characters, places and objects, in the film: Assassin’s Creed (20th Century Fox: 2016), focusing on the analysis of their origins, connotations and functional roles, on the basis of a structural semiotic approach. It aims to enable to structurally comprehend, and view a literary work in the midst of which social myths are concealed. The systematic invention of these proper nouns functions (1) to deliberately use the linguistic structure in order to convey the narrative connotations to create their verisimilitude and pertinence as well as (2) to form their new signification based on some values of a certain culture, which are continually normalized. Through the narratological process of this film, the proper nouns have been designed and codified for cultural operations. This leads to the “significance of names” in the world of visual industrialism.