Analyzing the Narrative Structure of Jamalzadeh and Anderson’s Short Stories :A Semiotic Approach

One of the stages of recognizing the intellectual, cultural and emotional characteristics of nations possessing culture and literature is the adjustment of their literary works. Semiotic approach reaches meaning through the literary text, and in this process, regimes of discourse as the main elements of discourse shape the narrative and change from one status to another. This study analyzes Savab ya Gonah by Jamalzadeh and The Corn Planting by Anderson ;the  Iranian and American writers in the framework of Greimas’s semiotic model.It also explicates the types discursive regime.The main question of this research is how the narrative process of signification is formed and what are the most important discourse systems involved in meaning production? The results showed that both authors have used a variety of narrative discourse systems in their story, but the discourse systems of action and State have been the dominant regimes in the narrative formation so that the narrative with State pattern has turned to action and again to the State with aesthetic and mythical type and we are confronted with the process of forming high spiritual values, and the characters in the story make their mythical presence visible to the audience. But what leads to the difference between the themes of both stories is the attitude of the actors and the value worldview in both cultures. In the story of Savab ya Gonah, the main actor in the form of religious codes of retribution and reconciliation with death is elevated to the status of myths. On the other hand, in “The Corn Planting” story, the main actors, in the form of Eco-Semiotic codes, linked the death of the child at the end of the narrative by turning to nature and attaining mythical status.