Cultural Semiotics at the core of the tales of “One Thousand and One Nights” Based on the Isomorphic texts

Taheri, Reza; Azar, Amir Ismail; Zirak, Sareh

doi:10.30465/lir.2021.34047.1237

Cultural Semiotics at the core of the tales of “One Thousand and One Nights” Based on the Isomorphic texts

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

reza taheri ¹

Amir Ismail Azar ²

Sareh Zirak ³

¹ PhD candidate in Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Iran. Reza.taheri55@gmail.com

² Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran,

³ Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran,

10.30465/lir.2021.34047.1237

Abstract

One Thousand and One Nights is one of the Jameulhekayat and complicated writing in Persian folk literature which its basic tale is based on storytelling of “Shahrzad” and there's a bunch of tales together around the core of center. This Semiosphere is a common with other historical texts of ancient Iran. This research has a descriptive analytical approach based on the same texts and Yuri Lutman's theory of cultural semiotics: Study of bilateral and calico relationship between different sign systems, exploring the origins cultural signs and it’s consanguinity with Isomorphic texts in the semiotics of Persian folk literature. it from the Cultural semiotics of “One Thousand and One Nights” And the study of the ideas of scholars on the basis of its fundamental tale, and the similarity with the same texts concludes: Structure and translation and reproduction of meaning and its contents is shaped in the Semiosphere of cultural and Iranian identity; It reflects social and cultural ties and It is the Iranian supplier's position; “self” Iranian with “another”culture is shaped in the discourse of cultures.

Keywords

“One Thousand and One Nights”

”Cultural Semiotics”

”Isomorphic texts”

“Yuri Lotman”

“Semiosphere”

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