The significance of titles in the short story collection (When crying does not work) by Ahmed Odeh

Abstract

Recent linguistic research has demonstrated the value of analyzing titles in creative texts since they serve as both the creator's intended message for the reader and the initial barrier and key that allows the text to be decoded and understood. In order to find the intentions or meanings that the creator or writer intended to convey in the folds of his creative text, the reader must penetrate the text, search through its components and connotations, and decipher its codes. This is because the code contains specific meanings that the creator or writer (intentionally or unintentionally) concealed between the folds of the text and raises questions for the recipient, as well as the significance of the title, which academics argue is the most precarious threshold because it allows one to access the implications of both the text's apparent and hidden meanings and open the text's curtains