Narrative Structures in the Novel “Qiamat Baghdad” for the Novelist Alia Talib – Semiotic Study

Abstract

Abstract

The human mind knew the philosophy and logic in the ancient times, and the history afterwards, while the semiotics concept appeared in the modern time, and became a new knowledge field like the other knowledge fields. It deals, in its different concepts and references, with the processes that lead to and reveals the meaning through what is hidden in addition to what is disclosed. It is the result of human activity in its pragmatic and cognitive dimensions together. The semiotic token concept became a knowledge key to access all the study, research, and  investigation fields, due to its ability of description, explanation, and dismantling. The paper is divided into two sections preceded by a theoretical introduction on the writer life and her literature career. The first part includes the semiotic concept linguistic and terminology, and the signs in the semiotic term. The second part of the paper introduces the applied part which includes the semiotics of the title, cover, color, and characters’ names. The last part includes the conclusions of the research.