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Turgut Cansever has established the following relation between the religious principles and the structured environment in order to represent the Islamic thought in the production of space: Even if the earth is a divine reflection shaped around the belief of "tawhid", it is a holistic space in which autonomous beings producing new subjectivities are organized by human hands. This article first tried to grasp these mentioned proposals on the basis of Saussure's duality of langue and parole; it, then tried to evaluate them with the concepts of metaphor and metonymy that are significant in linguistics. First of all, it has been witnessed that these concepts belonging to the structuralist tradition of Saussurean are base for analysis in cultural studies. At this point, it has been concluded that metaphor serves to put forward a tangible image in order to privilege an ideal meaning, thus it becomes a mode of representation that makes power inviolable. On the contrary, it has been said that metonymic connections invite to undermine the social hierarchy by emptying authoritarian meaning. Thus, borrowing the concepts of metaphor, metonym, langue and parole from semiotic this article interest in understanding his ideas between the lines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]