Semiotic meaning preference and its impact on expansion in meaning between English and Arabic in selected Quranic verses

Abstract EN

This research investigates Semiotics, the science of signs.

Semiotics means the study of the life of signs.

Since language means most important sign system; language use cannot be fully discussed without reference to semiotics.

Denotation and connotation are some concepts that are useful in making semiotic analyses.

The literature on Semiotics is expanding rapidly, i.e.

there are many works about it and still linguists are interested in expanding this field , according to English and Arabic scholars.

Section one deals with the definitions of Semiotics concept in western and Arabic semioticians, trying to explore the founder of it between the two groups.

The research tackles Semiotics according to (the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and the American logician Charles Sanders Peirce) as one of the prominent linguists who dealt with the semiotics at the western linguistic world.

Also the study quotes extensively from important ideas written by various Arab authors in order to provide the reader with some ideas of how the notion of semiotics in the eastern linguistic world.

The Holy Quran is rich of examples that present the notion of semiotics which makes it the original text that holds the notion of Semiotics.

The notion of semiotics has an attractive role in the interpretation of the Quranic verses which are full of signs.

Therefore, Quranic verses were chosen as useful illustrations to analyse semiotics, this is proves that Arab scholars dealt with this study since ancient time and they are the first founders of the notion semiotics.

Section two addresses some basic concepts in semiotics, to show how semiotic analyses help to find meaning in texts and how the meaning is developed and expanded.