Journal of Razavi Culture

Abstract In the analysis and study of literary texts, semiotic criticism has played a distinctive role in the 20th century. The French critic Michael Riffaterre, in his semiotic theory, presents a novel model for reading poetry. According to his theory, poetry is examined through two approaches: heuristic (exploratory) reading and retroactive (non-progressive) reading. The first reading, which is mimetic, focuses on the apparent meaning, while the second, which is semiotic, emphasizes linguistic connotations and implied meanings. Once non-grammatical elements in the text are identified, the relationship between these elements—through accumulations and descriptive systems—reveals a new discovery of the text’s structural network. 
In this study, Da’bal al-Khuza’i’s Ta’iyyah (d. 249 AH), the most famous and longest poem (124 verses) by the devoted poet of Imam al-Rida (AS), is analyzed based on Riffaterre’s approach. Applying Riffaterre’s model and semiotic analysis, two accumulations—praise for the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) and the oppression against them—are examined within a descriptive system of the poet’s suffering from injustice against the Infallibles (AS). Through the structural network of hope for intercession and the end of tragic tyranny, a profound and subtle reading of this ode is presented for the “super-reader”

Abstract Philip Hamon, a French semiotician researcher, has described the personality as four elements, on this basis, he has explained the theoretical foundations of personality semiotics, such as the literary semiotics of the personality, the relationship between the author, the text and the reader, and its main purpose is to find the occasion between the image (signifier) and imagination (signified). Folk literature (oral) with its various effects reflects the culture and the thought of the people, and childish songs that are forms of oral history that sometimes depicts the image of religious characters with the goal of educational-moral modeling. Imam Riḍā's face, his personality and his virtues are transcendental models for children and Zahra Davari has used Imam Riḍā's personality in the childish songs Hāchīn & Wāchīn to step children’s morality. This research was conducted with the aim of explaining the moral character of Imam Riḍā (as) in Hāchīn & Wāchīn’s Zahra Davari based on the Philip Hamon's semiotics theory with a descriptive- analytical approach and Imam Riḍā (as) as a sign (name, syntax and the rhetorical dimension and signifier) and the signified (attributes, spoken action and behavioral approaches) have been analyzed, as the research shows, the proper understanding of the character of Imam Riḍā (as) and his narrative function has been provided by using the knowledge of his personality semantics, that is, Davari has illustrated ImamRiḍā's (as) practical expression and ethical issues that have been identified by the folk language and childlike expressions to the audience (children).

Abstract Semiotics studies systematically the factors that influence the process of reaching the meanings in a text. Sign systems, including languages and codes, operate in the field of semiotics. That is why Rifater for reaching implications, suggests two types of readings: Linear or heuristic reading, and then another as retroactive reading. In the first reading, the reader gains a superficial understanding of the meaning of the text, however, in the second reading, after identifying ungrammatically factors; it can access hidden layers of text through descriptive aggregation frameworks and descriptive associative clusters. The research question is also the discovery of hidden relationships and implications of the text index. In Rahi Mo'ayyeri’s poetry, the poet encounters a problem. He tries to solve it and gets nowhere. He begs Imam Reza (as). His request is answered. He writes a poem whose theme is from within the poet. As a result, the structural network of the text has three implications: the poet's desire, its fulfillment, and the problem solving.

Abstract Considering the special historical context in which Imam Reza ^(AS) lived ,the hadiths narrated by the Imam is of especial significance, among which the hadith of Selselah Al-Zahab (The Golden Hierarchy) is of great eloquence and attractiveness. The necessity of scrutinizing the statements of Imam Reza ^(AS) is an important issue that had often been carried out from mystical point of view over the past centuries. Given the significant advance in Western Linguistics, it sounds necessary to reexamine the Hadiths through the concepts borrowd forom Semiotics and Text Linguistics. The current study thus sets out to explore the The Golden Hierarchy hadith thorough the lens of semiotics . The main research question here is: “What are the structural and cohesive features the Hadith in terms of contextual formation and the factors involved in it?” Using the concepts borrowed form semiotics in the form of operationalized concepts of Halliday’s linguistic analysis approach, this paper examines the structural features and the textual integrity of this noble hadith. The results of the study indicate that the text of this noble hadith is at the highest possible level of Halliday’s analytical perspective in terms of all textual cohesive elements.