The Semiotics of Meaning in Salah Zangana's StoriesA Study of the Meaning of Discourse

Abstract

    This research seeks to examine the short story collection (The Ordeal and the Pain) by the Iraqi short story writer Salah Zangana, to present its analytical revelations and critical approaches in light of the semiotic theory, which proposes the idea of tracing the sign and its preoccupations at the levels of narrative discourse. The research presents three procedural proposals that carry the objectives of searching for meaning. It presented the topic of ideology as a semiotic discourse with diverse visions that represent the ideas that include the conflict of the narrative characters. It also presented the idea of multiple narrative meanings, in addition to the semiotics of the parallel discourse that is embodied in the levels of intent that directs the narrative meaning. These propositions constitute extracted contents that emerge from the production of the meaning of the stories, and the researcher believes that they constitute a textual focus that is open to analysis and interpretation.