العتبات النصية في رواية "صديق قديم جدا" لإبراهيم أصلان: مقاربة سيمائية

Abstract EN

This research aims to study the textual thresholds in the contemporary narrative discourse represented in the novel “a very old friend” by Ibrahim Aslan.

this study also tends to monitor its patterns-according to what Gérard Genette, to reveal its connotations and purposes, and to show the extent of its relationship with the content of the narrative.

to achieve this, I followed the descriptive approach in analyzing the thresholds, and revealing the connotations and suggestions related to the original text.

the study is divided as followed: - an introduction: in which I defined the research topic, its importance, the reasons for choosing it, its objectives, its methodology, and its plan.

- the first topic: includes an explanation of the key words: semiotics, textual thresholds, within the novel “a very old friend”.

- the second topic tackles the semiotics of the published surrounding text and includes an analysis of thresholds: the outer cover, the inner cover, the anthropomorphic index, and the word of the publisher.

- the third topic illustrates the semiotics of the syntactic surrounding text, and includes an analysis of thresholds: the author's name, the main title, and the internal titles.

- conclusion includes the main findings of the research.

- list of sources and references.