Mechanisms of Semantic Isotopy Between Arabic Rhetoric and Western Studies

Abstract

Isotopy is a structural component that organizes discursive and semantic generation and expansion. Therefore, it is unlimited in terms of the number of components formed and accumulated on the horizontal structure of discourse. Its importance lies in the interpretative capabilities it provides to the reader, based on the adopted interpretative strategy and on isotopy's ability to extend across the discourse level by developing a hypothetical nucleus, considered a center capable of reproduction and generation. This could be a title of a poetry collection, an introduction, a preface, or a statement, where reproduction and generation rely on the accumulation and repetition of semiotic and/or contextual units in their relationship at the level of semantic productivity, as indicated by the discourse within the referential context, including spatial and temporal determinants and socio- cultural indicators that go beyond content to expression and formation. It establishes interpretive meaning by combining isotopy of content with isotopy of expression, and its effect on organizing the text in terms of its growth, generation, and semantic coherence.