العلامة اللونية الواصفة في الرواية العربية

Abstract EN

This research presents a semiotic approach of the descriptive linguistic sign with giving special emphasis to the linguistic sign indicating color, whether in utterance or in reference through the objects that constitute the narrative space.

This is attributed to the fact that color is a basic component that defines the characteristics of things, particularly as far as narrative components are concerned (time, place, character, incident).Due to the significant role of the color sign and its extensive presence in the language of narratives to the extent that certain color degrees dominate the language of narration, such as the dominance of the black color over the narrative space in the novel "HeenaTarakna Al-Jesr" (When we left the bridge) by 'Abdulrahman Maneef', this paper seeks to discover the nature of the color lexicon in a collection of novels from different Arab countries (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq).

The most significant tasks of it focus on the essence of the descriptive color sign in its distinct features that reveal its role in forming the identity of the text, and its role in receiving and producing it.

It is worth mentioning here that examining the color description in a narrative is done through a combination of relations organizing production and reception, which enable entering into a three-dimensional relation that includes the color indicator, indication (meaning) and reference from which the subject of the color description is derived together with its functional mechanisms at the level of the text's general context.