Semiotics of the Mythical Language Mythology in Sang-o Saye (The Stone and the Shade), a Novel by Mohammad Reza Safdari

Mythical language is language where the temporal, spatial, and semiotic methods in the structure of a myth are regenerated. In this paper, it has been analyzed and explained using text from Sang-o Saye (The Stone and the Shade), a novel by Mohammad Reza Safdari, how such a reconstruction of myths occurs in language. In the course of such an analysis, the status of history, as the temporal representation of myths, and nature, as the spatial representation of myths, is of great importance. It is in regard to the very status of history and nature confronting or corresponding to each other that linguistic implications make sense. Linguistic implications of human beings’ cognitive signs specify their status as subjects or objects, and it can be perceived from the very methods of semiotic implication how myths take shape in language. Mohammad Reza Safdari seems to have achieved such a system in language in Sang-o Saye.