Social semiotics of Iranian modernization in School Principal's novel

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad as a realist novelist in his works sought to reflect the events and social and cultural issues in Iranian society. Like his other works, the School Principal is a reflection of the failure of the experience of modernity in Iran. In fact, the narrated story of the school by Jalal is an expression of the Iranian community, which has experienced the simultaneous presence of traditional values and beliefs and modern releases in opposition to each other. The present study seeks to investigate and discover the evidences of modernization in the School Principal novel of Jalal-al-Ahmad with the approach of social semiotics. The results of the research, based on the twelve steps of the social semiotics approach to Theo van Leeuwen, showed that the Iranian society, regardless of the traditional beliefs and values, has renovated and entered modern elements in the field of education and other areas of social life, and in spite of material costs And a remarkable human being, in practice, the process of Iranian modernization has survived.Although the author does not offer a particular alternative to this situation, the evolution does not seem to be unattainable.