The Psychology of Static Imagery in the Book of Al-Mab’ath and Al-Maghazi: A Narrative Semiotic Study

Abstract

The text represents a network of signs interconnected with each other, and this interconnection is determined by the nature of the elements composing the text. These may be grammatical, rhetorical, or structural relations, represented by metaphor, metonymy, and other techniques that help in uncovering threads of meaning and tracing its movements within that structure. This representation is "a verbal activity where the speaker's role is not to control the use of semantic systems but to utilize them in light of the appropriate conditions for the discourse event" (Al-Badi, 2024, p. 70), which is determined by the general context of the sentence and its integrated structural construction. The components of narration and their coherence within a single work, being an aesthetic feature, are based on the ideologization of reality as imaginative and its connection to levels of language to make it more realistic through interpretive relationships that generate new meanings. These meanings transcend the superficial appearance to the deeper level, which can only be grasped by delving into the backgrounds that shape the literary work (Khamri, 2024, p. 244). It explores the aesthetics of structure, which is considered a characteristic of everything that indicates beauty, is attributed to it, or is connected to what is beautiful and what is not beautiful (Alloush, 2024, p. 62).