تجليات سيميائية في رواية شيفرة بلال لأحمد خيري العمري

Abstract EN

Semiotic analysis is concerned with monitoring the signs that reveal the components of text.

This study aims to highlight the defining semiotic features included in Ahmed Al-Omari's Bilal's Code with particular reference to semiotic features including title, cover, dedication, preface, semiotics of colors, body language, characters, and time and place components.

Using the descriptive- analytical method based on the mechanisms of semiotic analysis, the study tries to highlight the features of the semiotic formation that has played an important role in the foundation of the novel's aesthetic and narrative structure.

The study came up with a number of results.

The cover of the novel opened the text space on the symbols of racism and rebellion against torture.

The title of the novel underlines significant connotations that the receiver has to unravel in order to study the relation between the symbol of the code and the connotations associated with the name Bilal.

The beginning of the novel also highlighted Bilal's character, a child who possessed the qualities of boldness, endurance, and secrecy.

The author also made use of the language of eyes in terms of sarcasm, love and hatred, perplexity and indifference.

The features of the face and its expressive forms ranged from a face symbolizing identity, a face devoid of feelings, and a worried face.

The tones of the voice also varied to indicate enthusiasm at times, astonishment in addition to sarcasm, anger and pain.

Each character is associated with a symbol that goes along with its nature and its characteristics related to color and behavior.

The novel also highlighted the semiotic significance of time and place.