The Semiotics of Non-Verbal Communication in “Al-Taliani” Novel by Shukri Mabkhout

Semiotics is one of the interdisciplinary sciences that studies and analyzes the signs and the meaning behind them. Nonverbal communication is one of the branches of semiotics that encompasses a variety of people's motor behaviors including facial expressions, body movements, gestures, and conversation adjustment movements. Also, attitudes, postures, attire, facial communication, body gestures, artifacts, time, place, music, etc. are nonverbal communication symptoms that can independently convey a message or help to convey verbal messages. Become more influential. This type of communication has six functions of complementing, denying, repeating, controlling, substituting, and emphasizing. In this regard, the present study seeks to examine the work of contemporary Tunisian author Shukri Mabkhout's novel from the standpoint of nonverbal communication symptoms including facial expressions, eye states, taste and smell, objects, distance, etc. This new reading of the text makes it possible for the reader to decode the messages that the author conveyed through non-verbal elements. The importance of Al-Talani's novel goes back to its selection as a Poker Prize in 2015, and its semantic review has been a major necessity of the present study. The results indicate that al-Makhbouth has benefited the most from various facial expressions and functions and their implications. He has used these cases to express such things as fear of something strange, satisfaction, ridicule, shame and shame. Alongside these, other modes and organs are also involved in delivering the author's messages. Most of these messages also have a succession function.