Fractured Viewpoints: A Semiotics of Perspective in Aurélie Moeremans’s Broken Strings

Abstract

This article applies a semiotics of perspective to a literary reading of Aurélie Moeremans’s Broken Strings, examining how meaning is generated through fragmented narration, shifting viewpoints, and disrupted coherence. Rather than treating perspective as a stable narrative position, the study conceptualizes it as a semiotic process through which voice, focalization, and readerly orientation are continuously reconfigured. Drawing on contemporary semiotic theory and linguistic-anthropological accounts of indexicality, the analysis demonstrates how Broken Strings employs rupture, formal, syntactic, and thematic, as a structuring principle of signification. These breaks function not merely as stylistic devices but as semiotic operators that reposition the reader within the text’s interpretive field. By foregrounding discontinuity and perspectival instability, the work challenges conventional narrative alignment and produces meaning through absence, tension, and deferred coherence. The fractured perspective becomes central to the signification of meaning within the semiotics process.