A Semiotic Approach to Two Qur'anic Narratives: Joseph and his Brothers - Couverture souple

Hassanein, Hamada

 
9783639180589: A Semiotic Approach to Two Qur'anic Narratives: Joseph and his Brothers
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639180585 ISBN 13 : 9783639180589
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Hopefully second to none, this monograph conducts a structural-cognitive semiotic analysis of two narratives in the Qur'an: Joseph and his Brothers & Moses and Pharaoh. In doing so, it detailedly presents semiotics theoretically, methodologically, and practically, with the aim of finding answers to three main questions:'WHAT' is the narrated? 'HOW' the narrated is told? 'WHY' the narrated is told? The chosen methods answer the question what? through the 3-D and actantial models; the question how? through the transport and enunciative models; and the question why? through the thematic and discursive models. The analytical study shows that a) ¿semiotics¿ is too difficult to define operationally, is wedded to many disciplines, and is criticized for being imperialistic, generalized and selective; b) that the model, though unnamed, can be envisaged as textual, semiotic and narrative; c) that the two narratives share as well as differ in certain narrative aspects propositionally, enunciationally, and discoursally.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Hopefully second to none, this monograph conducts a structural-cognitive semiotic analysis of two narratives in the Qur'an: Joseph and his Brothers & Moses and Pharaoh. In doing so, it detailedly presents semiotics theoretically, methodologically, and practically, with the aim of finding answers to three main questions:'WHAT' is the narrated? 'HOW' the narrated is told? 'WHY' the narrated is told? The chosen methods answer the question what? through the 3-D and actantial models; the question how? through the transport and enunciative models; and the question why? through the thematic and discursive models. The analytical study shows that a) ¿semiotics¿ is too difficult to define operationally, is wedded to many disciplines, and is criticized for being imperialistic, generalized and selective; b) that the model, though unnamed, can be envisaged as textual, semiotic and narrative; c) that the two narratives share as well as differ in certain narrative aspects propositionally, enunciationally, and discoursally.

Biographie de l'auteur

Hamada Hassanein is an assistant lecturer at the Dept. of English, Fac. of Education, Univ.of Mansoura , Egypt. He is interested in applying recent linguistic theories to Classical Arabic, the language of the Qur'an. He was awarded two scholarships: FLTA, USA & MHESR ParOwn, Uk. He is currently working on Qur'anic antonymy.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639180585
ISBN 13 
9783639180589
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
268
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