The pragmatics of the title in the diwan “East of Sun..West of Moon” by Muhammed El Faytori

Abstract

This study seeks to monitor the communicative meanings and pragmatic purposes on which the title operates as an important threshold in the extrapolation of literary discourses. This is what we find in most contemporary curricula and studies that give a lot of attention to the title in analyzing the texts and explaining their hidden connotations, such as semiotics and structuralism. Accordingly, the pragmatic analysis was adopted for the title of the diwan, "East of the Sun. West of the Moon" by the Sudanese poet Muhammed El-Faytouri, because of its deep connotations that break the horizon of expectation of the recipient and push him to investigate its apparent and hidden meanings through the process of interpretation that expands his mental perceptions and elevates his levels of thinking away from superficial understanding, which contributes to transferring the title from a traditional reading to a pragmatic reading that links it to the various elements of communication and to the producing conditions of the knowledge and ideas that establish it. This is what enhances the quality of reception by going beyond the linguistic contexts and proceeding towards a deeper comprehension of the contents of the title that interact with the internal structure of poetic discourse on the one hand and with the subjectivity of the poet and non-linguistic contexts on the other