نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
Social semiotics is a critical and analytical approach that examines socio-cultural signs within literary texts. It re-reads the process of meaning production by investigating textual signs and social implications. Analysis of signs and their semantic relations in the text’s ideological system and its impact on the meaning production are within the domain of semiotics. Pierre Guiraud, a French linguist and semiotician, contributed significantly to this area by classifying social and cultural signs involved in the process of textual meaning-making. Safvat al-Safa by Ibn Bazzaz Ardabili is one of the most significant biographical texts on Sufi sheikhs in 8th-century AH Persian Sufi literature. It narrates the spiritual and social life of Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardabili, along with that of his teachers and disciples. Through these accounts, Ibn Bazzaz presents a vivid portrayal of the social context of Sheikh Safi’s era, offering valuable insights into both the Sufi path and the socio-cultural conditions of the time. Using the descriptive-cum-analytical method and drawing on Guiraud’s foundational theories, the article reexamines the socio-cultural semiotic system within the text. The results revealed that identity-related signs, such as titles, locations, social classes, and professions, as well as communicative signs like speech tone, nonverbal cues, and behavioral patterns, eventually led to the meaning production
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