Investigating the Components of the Thymic Structure of Discourse: The Case Study of Mi’ad Short Story by Goli Taraghi: A Semiotic Approach to Literary Discourse Analysis.

The current research aims to investigate all the components of thymic structure of discourse (modal and tensive components) in short story of “Mi’ad” by Goli Taraghi- one of the writers of contemporary Persian fictional literature. Research methodology is descriptive –analytical. In fact, the author seeks to explain the underlying interaction of these semiotic components “in this short story by relying on the phenomenal presence of enunciator in order to show how thymic structures emerge in discourse and affect the process of meaning production and perception. To this end, the main objective of the present research is to answer the following questions: 1.What are the fundamental semiotic constituents and mechanisms of discourse thymic structure in this short story? 2. How is it possible to explain the function of narrative action with regard to hierarchical nature of discourse thymic structure? The results showed that discourse thymic structure is the output of phenomenal presence of subject enunciator which in its own turn marginalizes narrative action through modal constituents’ turbulence and then stabilizes them by emergence of thymic state of hope which one again rehabilitate narrative action in semiotic field. Undoubtedly, these interactions are in constant relationship with semiotic modes of presence.