چکیده (انگلیسی):

This study deals with the local Palestinian literature in Israel and highlights the technical styles that are
employed in the service of meaning in the short stories written by the Palestinian writer Muḥammad
Naffāʿ(1939).
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The technical styles that are intensively summarized here have been collected after a long study
that lasted for three years investigating 6 collections of the short stories that Naffāʿ has written since 1976. In
addition, the study deals with all the available short stories that were written published on sporadically on AlAl-Ǧabha Website since June, 2014. The study sets out from a mere semiotic starting point as I believe that the
most productive method to trace meanings through various styles and forms of writing is the adoptionof and
following the semiotic method being a model that combines all the de-constructional and analytical methods
of criticism. In view of this, the study attempts to show how Naffāʿ succeeds in employing specific
techniques to make the meaning present on the surface of the text. It shows also the significance of the
interconnectivity between form and content and its importance in understanding the text in a profound way
as through that interconnectivity, the reader turns into a positive receiver and an active participant in the
analytical process of the text.