Le Centre-Ville d’Alger à Travers La Rue Didouche Mourad: Un Essai d’Etude Sémiotique

Abstract

By its distinction of the other parts of the city and its representation in the collective unconscious, the inner city becomes significant. It is then perfectly legitimate to grasp it from an analysis inspired by semiotic concepts. Our methodological choice was fixed on A.J Greimas' discourse analysis approach. Although it is a priori applicable to any signifying system (comic strip, architecture, advertising, painting, caricature, etc.), it remains more applied in literary studies. We are aware of the difficulty of applying this theory to the study of urban space and architectural forms. Some aspects of the analysis, considered in the rigor of this approach must be placed in the domain of hypotheses. On the other hand, the essential part of this work is based on Greimas's concepts and the theory of language. The study of Albert Levy on the church of La Madeleine in Paris served as a reference. Many researchers in the past have stressed the need for an epistemological breakthrough that has not yet been implemented to date in the field of space semiotics. More in-depth investigations and, above all, the removal of certain ambiguities arising from the interpretation of these same space-specific concepts are essential. For R. Ledrut, no one has yet identified the relevant (non-linguistic) urban signifiers. Those who know them without critical analysis in the forms (and why not in other" images ") are very misled. With its rich history and daily dynamism, DidoucheMourad Street reveals itself as a world full of meanings where the user would become one of its intrinsic components. In view of the physical manifestation that results from an enunciative act, the aim is to highlight the presence of the user by signaling his manifestations. Any actor who has participated in the permanent structuring of this street assumes the figure of the enunciator. Paradoxically, enunciation would become an unfinished act in itself, since its very future would depend on these reappropriations. Among the many figures of the enunciator, that of the architect is privileged. Through the process of projection, he projected each of the actors of an initially ideological discourse by attributing to them figures in the materiality of this street.