Semiotics of sound in Raja Alam's novel (star)

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Assistant Professor of Literature and Criticism at Taif University - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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This study is based on analyzing the narrative text of the novel (Sitr) by Raja Alem, one of the most important novelists in the modern era, and she has a distinctive narrative experience. The study uses the semiotic approach as a tool, and the choice of the semiotic approach was based on the ability of this approach to reveal the meanings of different texts through their linguistic and non-linguistic signs. The sign of (sound) in the novel was a tool for the study, by observing the presence of this sign in abundance in this narrative text, as sound was a form of interaction between the elements of narrative construction. The study presented an analysis of the sign of sound in its various contexts, so it dealt with sound in its interaction with the characters of the novel, when it came as an image of communication with the characters, and in its interaction with events when it was a driver of events in different ways and in its interaction with the place, where sounds occupied the expression of the spatial background of the event, and dealt with silence and its significance in the novel as an element that is in solidarity with sound in showing the semantic dimension of the sign that the writer employed Employing it contributed greatly to building the novel, and finally, I addressed the textual thresholds and their relationship to the meaning of sound in the novel.

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The bulletin of the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies for Girls in Alexandria
Volume 41, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
First Issue (March)
March 2025
Pages 3855-3890

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