The Semiotics of the Cognitive Image in the Image are Stereotypical by the Tool (ma) and the Superlative Noun (afal) in Ancient Arabic Poetry
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https://doi.org/10.35516/Hum.2026.9963Keywords:
Semiotics, cognitive, image, poetryAbstract
Objectives: This study explores the cognitive state of the stereotyped image in classical Arabic poetry, focusing on knowledge acquisition, thought, experience, and perception. It examines the semiotic and cognitive links in poetic imagery to understand the cognitive framework of its creation and how it shapes timeless poetic texts.
Methods: The study employs a descriptive-analytical approach in analyzing selected poetic models. These models share a unified stylistic framework and exhibit structural similarities while differing in image generation and interactions. The chosen texts represent a stereotyped image that relies on the negation tools and the superlative form.
Results: The study reveals a tangible relationship between semiotics and cognition. It also demonstrates that the classical Arabic poet relied on imagery as an attributive device to express sensory emotions or to manifest cognitive processes. The study argues that poetic imagery, through its linguistic structure, emerges from intellectual operations shaped within a specific cultural framework. However, the interaction between the mind and language transforms these linguistic structures into a conceptual text, facilitated by the semiotic nature of the poetic image.
Conclusion: This study confirms that the poetic image is a mental process based on the interaction of memory, experience, and inference, with cognitive reasoning controlling its formation. The research also establishes a framework for understanding poetic imagery within a set of scientific terms, including emotion, cognitive elements, systematic imprinting, stylistic categories, iconic imagery, textual achievement, inference, and response theory.
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