The Semiotics of “Title” in Mohammad Helmi al-Risheh's Poetry; Cases Studies: “La To'teni Tafahata Okhra” , “Resalatan ela Kalimollah” and “Ababil”

Phishgam, Nahid; Maroof, Yahya; Mohammadi, Majid

doi:10.22059/jalit.2021.320023.612368

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Assistant Professor in Arabic Language and Literature, Razi University

² Professor in Arabic Language and Literature, Razi University

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2021.320023.612368

Abstract

Literary semiotics, as a modern science at the present time, seeks to decode and discover the signs of the text by using the syntagmatic relations between words and the special arrangement of words. “Title” of text is one of the important codes of semiotics and is the showcase of text which can have an important relationship with the main text and guides the reader to discover the author's mental concepts; hence it can be said that “title” plays an important role in decoding a text. Mohammad Helmi Al-Risheh (1985) is one of the poets who often uses symbols and signs to convey his poetic mission to the audience.He considers “title” as a key to entering the text, and has paid special attention to it. “Title” at the beginning of many of his odes gives a fillip to the mind of audience. in this paper, “La To'teni Tafahata Okhra” , “Resalatan ela Kalimollah” and “Ababil” will be discussed as the cases studies.Since the titles of the three poems are based on the invoking of Quranic stories, the present study aims to investigate the title of these odes from semiotic perspective and analyze their relationship with the main text based on the Quranic intertextuality. This paper also recounts the poet's purpose for invoking the Quranic stories and examines the functions of the title of the text during its reading and explores the titles at the structural and significational level and analyzes its functions.The findings of this research indicate that the titles of the poems have been taken from Quranic stories and is in line with the main text, which the poet has used to induce his mental schemata. Also, titles are sometimes directly related to the text; that is, in terms of meaning and sound, they have been taken from the text and sometimes their function is indirect. So the reader to discover this relationship needs more effort. Also, the mentioned titles are signifiers with their own signified and have descriptive and attractive functions.

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Volume 13, Issue 4
March 2022
Pages 17-37