Levels of Language in Ibrahim Nasr-Allah's Novel "Toyour Al-Hathar".

Résumé

This paper aims at investigating the levels of language in the novel "Toyour Al-Hathar" for Ibrahim Nasr-Allah. It is one of the most important novels of Ibrahim Nasr-Allah that deal with suffering, exile, displacement, and misery that the characters, exiled from their land, lived. Thus, the events, characters, situations, and narration require variation in the levels of language that expressed a human, social, political, and economic vision that appeared through the events and the roles of characters.    

Studying the levels of language in the novel "Toyour Al-Hathar" is an important issue as it is based on a variety of language levels in the novel. The characters differ in their cultural and social levels, and thus, the situations and events uncover the variation in language in the novel, and this requires a close reading of the language structure, on which the novel is based.

This study aims at uncovering the levels of language in the novel "Toyour Al-Hathar" for Ibrahim Nasr-Allah, through focusing on the language structure in order to show that there are many language levels in the novels that could reflect the vision of the author, who made variation in language on basis of situation, event, and character. 

The study is analytically based, as it analyzes the language structure in the novel, i.e., the study focuses on language that the novelist formed in the novel. This method can show the implications of language levels and their link with the vision from which the novel launches.

The study has shown that the language employed in the novel has many levels, such as the poetic and its influence on the reader, and the colloquial represented in the proverbs and daily language and folklore, in addition to dialogue which is based on irony and repetition. The most important conclusion is that the study has highlighted the role of language variation, the difference in the levels of language, and the role of that in the structure of the novel work.  

The study recommends that further studies to be made on the language of the novel, due to its importance in showing the importance of language and its content, and for more research on dictionaries for most Arab novelists.