A study of non-verbal behaviors in Najib al-Kilani's novel "Amalekhat alshemal"

Communication is one of the main components of social life that sometimes appears non-verbally in literary texts and poets and writers have used it as an effective means to convey concepts and achieve their literary goals. Naguib al-Kilani is an Egyptian Muslim writer and theorist of Islamic literature. His novel "Giants of the North" tells the story of a young Muslim, describes the state of life of the Nigerian people, and addresses the cultural and religious confrontation between Islamic and colonial currents. In this work the author uses non-verbal communication tools such as facial behaviors (laughing, crying, eye contact, changing cheek color) and body movements (head, hand, foot, etc.). The present study seeks to explain the semantic relationships based on non-verbal communication in this novel in a descriptive-analytical manner and with an interdisciplinary approach (semiotics, communication science and psychology) and also to show the extent of the use of non-verbal messages. The findings show that the author made the most of body and face behaviors and used non-verbal messages as a complementary element of verbal messages to better convey the meaning and credibility of the events of the story. Non-verbal communication channels in this novel often express the spiritual and psychological behaviors of the characters such as inner purity, anxiety, shame, thinking, happiness, gratitude, etc., and in them show the basic human needs such as need. I do not like to eat, drink or sleep.