The Story ‘The Jackal, the Lion and the Donckey’ : A Semiotic Study

Abstract

The semiologist Julien Grimas created a new reading of the the theory of Vladimire Propp that covers  the different rules of the semiotic research. He succeeded in reformulating it through various criteria related to defining the function and the levels of organizing the narratives. In the current research paper , we tackled the story of ‘ The Jackal, the Lion and the Donckey’  from the book   Kalila wa Dimna written by Ibn Elmogafaa   as a case study to apply the theory of  semiotic narration. Based on the different levels of the semiotic analysis (narrative structure, discourse structure    and metaphorical  structure) and tacking into account of the system of dividing the text into sections, we tried to apply some of the findings of   Propp through dividing the sections into scenes