The Semiotic Function for the Names of Characters in the Jordanian Novel: A Chosen Sample of a Number of Novels

Abstract

Characters in a novel are usually imaginative. They donot exist except

in the mind of the novelist who creates these characters to represent a social

sample in the society. The novelist then builds the events of the story which

revolve round this character. The novelist then make his character develop

these events and get affected by them in addition to the other elements that

shape the character.

Hence, this study deals with the semiotic function for the names of

characters in the Jordanian novel through tracing the relationship of these

names to the novels.

This relation will be studied from many aspects such as:

1. The tilles of the novels.

2. The main events in these novels .

3. The places used in these novels.

The researcher will also study the way the narrator presents the

characters which in many way carry hes own ideas and viewpoints. The study

will also discuss the degree of relationship between the characters and the

real examples which represent these characters in his society. The researcher

will study all these aspects simultaneously through a selective sample of

novels during the period 1995- 2002.