A Comparative Analysis in Jamalzadeh and Anderson’s Short Stories; Semiotics Approach; Case study: Kababe Ghaz and Death in the woods

Stories represent the intellectual and cultural foundations of each society, so the discovery of the underlying elements and underlying structure of stories reflects the social characteristics of each nation. Semiotics provides the capacity to analyze and discover the underlying structures of the narrative and is able to provide analysts and critics with accurate scientific tools. This research is an analytical Semiotics of two stories of Kabab-e Ghaz and Death in the Wood by two Iranian and American writers. The authors attempt to answer the question of the typology of Jamalzadeh and Anderson's discourse systems and what are the cultural and social differences in the underlying layers of these two stories. According to descriptive-analytical studies and content analysis method based on semiotics discourse tools, the results show that both authors have used different kinds of discourse systems in their story but the process of action and Stative as a core elements of discursive factors, creates discourse and lead up to transmutation of meaning. Namely, action replacing Stative with aesthetic type. But what has made the difference in the themes of the stories is the lifestyle and attitude of the actors and cultural factors in both discourses.