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Motif
المؤلف:
Bronwen Martin and Felizitas Ringham
المصدر:
Dictionary of Semiotics
الجزء والصفحة:
P89
2025-06-17
105
Motif
The term motif denotes a distinctive idea or dominant or recurrent theme, feature or pattern in literature, music or the arts. We talk, for example, of the wedding-motif in love stories, of the motif of rags to riches or of the motif of the whore with the heart of gold.
Folklorists such as S. Thompson employ the term motif in opposition to type of folk-tale in order to designate the smallest story element likely to recur, in its particular form, in popular tradition. Thompson, in fact, is known for his Motif Index of Folk-Literature.
Semiotic theory relates the term motif to the concept of configuration because of its particular syntactical and semantic organization as well as its integration into a larger discursive unit.
See also configuration.
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