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Abstract

The Imams' words include epistemological and ontological foundations to examine various perspectives, including sign-semantics. Sign-semantics is one of the contemporary theories in the interpretation and explanation of thought systems and linguistic features. It is also a scientific tool for analyzing discourse systems that study the meaning formation and production mechanisms in texts. One of these trends is Pierce semiotics, which has extensive dimensions in the analysis of linguistic signs. The present study aimed to analyze the sign-semantic of love in the hadiths based on Pierce's semiotic approach. First, we explored some narrations concerning "love" from the perspective of substitution, companionship, and sign semantics with the descriptive-qualitative analysis method. Then, we expressed different dimensions of inter-meaning and extra-meaning of this word. The results indicated that the word “Kindness” in the narrations has the situation meaning and the basic levels of the standard language include dynamic meanings that appear in the form of the three Pierce's signs, as a symbol, icon, and index. Then, by analyzing the processes of meaning production using the signal functions of love and related semantic networks attempted to reveal the spaces governing the speaker's mind in meaning production and explain what meanings this purposeful discourse has been moving. This discourse makes meanings that contain valuable layers of the Imam's words and the ultimate goal of Islamic educational texts.

Article Type

Article

First Page

148

Last Page

167

Publication Date

3-15-2023

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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