چكيده لاتين
Association of meanings is an unstructured element indirectly affecting a story’s overall structure and elements. The present research determines how the structuration of a work may lead to a series of metaphoric and metonymic schemes. Accordingly, tools, perspectives, and patterns provided by philosophical, psychoanalytic, anthropological, and particularly semiotic theories will be utilized in investigation and analysis of stories. The preliminary necessity of such an analysis is the existence of coherent scientific foundations concerning the association of meanings techniques, based on which the texts or stories can be examined. Despite the research and case studies conducted in this field, there is still no systematic investigation and analysis comprehensively examining the fundamental principles of association of meanings techniques in general, and specifically how they structure the entirety and elements of Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi’s literary works. In some of Sa’edi’s stories and their fundamental significance, the presence of the association of meanings techniques’ organizer necessitates the analysis of the stories from the perspective introduced in this study. Hence, in addition to collecting scientific and theoretical foundations for the technique in question, the current research is aimed at studying the structuration of the work and showing how Sa’edi’s stories can be interpreted through the association mechanism. Thus, initially, scientific definitions of association of meanings from the perspective of relevant sciences will be presented; subsequently, the stories will be analyzed using various tools provided by Peirce’s theory of semiotics and other related theories. This research ultimately determines that in his literary works, the author (Sa’edi) has given special attention to the use of association of meanings techniques with the plot, character development, and central themes being indebted to these techniques. Consequently, recognizing the function of these techniques may lead to the understanding and interpretation of various dimensions of the literary works as interpretable works, revealing the subtlety, conceptual capacities and underlying themes of the stories.
