The Semiotics of spoken and no – spoken voices in Dalya by Azzedine Mihoubi

Abstract

This research attempts to address a crucial problematic by covering a form of art that is foreign to the Arab World in general, and Algeria in particular; namely, theater. Dramatic text, as an essential element of theater, with its main components and semiotic systems, is the precise focus of our work as we seek to shed light on dramatic text composition and some semiotic benchmarks that are associated with it. The focus was on a set of elements that control how the audience experiences dramatic works, and how the presented work can have an effect on the spectator. This effect appears through ovations, laughter, and even crying at times.

In order to illustrate that, we studied the relationship between theater and semiotics, and touched on the semiotics of both verbal vocalization and non-verbal vocalization in the play “The Dalya” by Azzedine Mihoubi. Moreover, the two concepts constitute a set of markers that contribute to the realism and symbolism of scenes in “The Dalya”.