تناسل الدلالة في موتيف العقم: حد التأويل في "خذ الجميل" ليوسف القعيد

Ibrahim Taha, in his article "Flow of significance procreation in the motive of infertility: The limits of interpretation in Yusuf al-Qaid's Khadd al-Jamil", deals with the process of enterpretation through Khadd al-Jamil, a novella by Yusuf al-Qaid. In his article, Taha suggests a semiotic model of literary interpretation compound of four stages: 1) First reading: abridging the text. In this stage, his or her first contact with the text, the reader reduces the text by leaving out all the "irrelevant" textual data, and keeps in mind only those, which are needed for the next stages. 2) Second reading: from text to meaning. The reader ascribes textual meaning/s to the abridged text, going by what has been remained in his/her mind. 3) Limits of interpretation: from meaning to significance. In this stage, the reader becomes more involved in the process of interpretation by generalizing the meanings she or he has gleaned from the text in this way and turning them into general significance. 4) Space of writing: from significance to intention. In the final stage, the reader then attributes those significances to the author him/herself, and refers to them as the original intention of the actual author. Introducing his semiotic model, Taha makes intensive use of well-known terminology suggested by E.D. Hirsch: meaning, significance and intention, which are percisely paralleled by text, reader and author.