Palestinian Fragments’ by Suleiman Jawadi: A Semiotic Study

Abstract

In this research entitled “ ‘Palestinian Fragments’ by Suleiman Jawadi: A Semiotic Study,” we examine the characteristics of the poem’s semantic structure and the way this structure contributes to its poetic formation, revealing its various meanings and contents, as well as the extent to which the semantic structure can participate in achieving communication, influence, and impact. We will rely on the concepts and methodological tools provided by the theory of semantic fields to analyze the poem and understand its various connotations, in order to determine the active role of connotation in building and shaping the text linguistically on one hand, and influencing the recipient through the dense semantic content on the other hand. Therefore, we will try to answer the following questions: - What is connotation? What are semantic fields? To what extent does connotation contribute to the linguistic construction of “Palestinian Fragments”? - How does connotation contribute to conveying the various meanings and purposes intended by the sender (the poet), and to what extent is harmony and coherence achieved between the language of the studied poem and its various connotations?