The semiotics of performance in the three story collections (Told That, Rain Tree, Gods of Excuses) by Siddiq Boudouara

Abstract

This research aims to demonstrate the importance of (dedication) in narrative discourse as a textual threshold and a feature that comes directly after the title and cover, representing a linguistic significance that connects the storyteller and the reader. It seeks to establish that this discourse has both conformity and divergence in its structural composition in terms of sentences, vocabulary, and the relationship between them and the significance of the names or those to whom the dedication is made, whether through (revelation or concealment), and to understand the extent of the relationship that connects the storyteller with them through a linguistic structure that forms a semiotic significance within his (private and public) dedication discourses, particularly in the works of storyteller Sidik Boudaouara. I have attempted to make this research light-hearted for the reader, akin to their experience when browsing and their eyes landing on (the dedication) in the three short story collections, and to extract the feature of (dedication) from the (storyteller) who has distinguished himself with a diverse and intriguing dedication in terms of wording and questioning before diving into the world of the text and exploring the aesthetic semiotic phenomenon and interpreting it to reveal the specific influential purpose in (dedication) that calls for study and clarification