Imperfection (of meaning) in the Semiotic Reading of You Are No Stranger Here

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1 MA in Linguistics, Vali-e-Asr University, Rafsanjan, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Foreign Languages. Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan

3 Associate Professor in Linguistics, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan

Abstract

The research scope of fiction literature is widening day by day with new perspectives and horizons; as if the art and capacity of story—and its discourse full of wonder and enigma—refuse to come to a halt. What we read in You Are No Stranger Here (Shomā ke Gharibe Nistid) (Houshang Moradi Kermani, 2015 \[1394]) is an autobiographical writing of the author’s childhood and adolescence, in an intimate and profound tone, wherein the reader discovers the meaning of many textual propositions neither subject to primary, pre-given structures nor under the dominance of an actantial program and narratological and manipulative semio-semantics, but rather within the expanse of verbal communication and within two systems: co-occurance and contingency (chance). The present article, using a descriptive–analytical approach, aims to study these two systems in the aforementioned narrative work. Accordingly—based on the doctrine of the “imperfection (of meaning),” and within Algirdas Julien Greimas’s post-structuralist studies—it examines stative and emotion-oriented semio-semantics and its aesthetic events. Findings suggest that, in contemporary fiction, meaning has acquired new coordinates whose history and geography are constituted not through opposition or parity between form and meaning, but through equivalence between the two; hence, meaning is fluid, elusive, dynamic, and sliding.

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Journal of Iranian Dialects & Linguistics

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 03 November 2025

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  • Receive Date: 13 August 2025
  • Revise Date: 28 October 2025
  • Accept Date: 03 November 2025

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