Seyedeh Khadijeh Mirbazel; Masoumeh Arjmandi
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AbstractA question that historians and religious scholars have long been unable to come up with a convincing answer is on the story of Dhu Al-Qarnayn, which is described in the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran. Some call him the King of Yemen, some Macedonian Alexander, and many believe he is the Cyrus ...
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AbstractA question that historians and religious scholars have long been unable to come up with a convincing answer is on the story of Dhu Al-Qarnayn, which is described in the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran. Some call him the King of Yemen, some Macedonian Alexander, and many believe he is the Cyrus King of Persia. The name "Dhu Al-Qarnayn" is mentioned three times in the 18th Surah of the Quran (Al-Kahf, verses 83 to 98) that the story and his identity are always in question. With the aim of identifying "Dhu Al-Qarnayn" through descriptive-analytical method, this study tried to analyze the aforementioned verses of the Surah Al-Kahf (words and sentences) based on the three levels of Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis (CDA): critical description, interpretation, and explanation. The CDA approach emphasizes the need to pay attention to the preservation and observance of all aspects of language, context and discourse. The present study in the process of CDA of those verses concluded that Dhu Al-Qarnayn is not the Yemeni king, Macedonian Alexander, and the Persian king Cyrus, who were all conquerors. Dhu Al-Qarnayn is a prophet from God Almighty with a mission to reform and help the servants of God and lived in the Iron Age before the birth of Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad (PBUH).
Sayed Farid Khalifehloo; Hossein Hallajzadeh Benab; Sayed Mojtaba Hosseini
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Since no Indication system is neutral from the ideological point of view, it is possible to discover the hidden relationships and to re-publishing the latent ideologies in the deepening of language by recognizing the language and discovering the underlying layers. Discourse structures, by organizing ...
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Since no Indication system is neutral from the ideological point of view, it is possible to discover the hidden relationships and to re-publishing the latent ideologies in the deepening of language by recognizing the language and discovering the underlying layers. Discourse structures, by organizing their own system of signage, shape our understanding of reality. The present research explored the framework of ideological structure in deference demanding men's discourse, based on Van Dijk theory (2006). In this study, the researchers attended to 20 family courts in Birjand and collect written information from twenty deference demanding men from urban class at age of 25-45 and degree of Diploma and Bachelor. The present paper sought to explain what language strategies and tools men use to achieve their ideological goals and to make the judge make a decision for their best. The referral strategies of these individuals were determined by the "ideological square" model of Van Dijk (2006) and the frequency of each side of the square will be determined. The results showed that demanding men use a variety of linguistic strategies to increase the negative attitude of their wives (%58) and magnify their positive attitude (%27). The population of the study used less than the other two sides of the ideological square (the reduction of positive points the outsiders and negative points of themselves), which is in the same line with the theory of Van Dijk (2006).
Ebrahim Rezapour; Shiva Ahmadi
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Nominalization is one of the metaphors introduced by Halliday, which is a part of ideational meta-function. The present research study is an attempt to investigate the role of nominalization in political Persian and English discourses from Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) perspective. ...
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Nominalization is one of the metaphors introduced by Halliday, which is a part of ideational meta-function. The present research study is an attempt to investigate the role of nominalization in political Persian and English discourses from Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) perspective. In so doing, it attempts to answer the following research questions: (1) Does nominalizations have any role in cohesion and coherence as well as in marginalization and highlighting in the text? (2) What’s ideological role of nominalization in Persian and English political discourse? (3) In which discourse (Persian or English) more nominalizations are used? By studying 22/5 pages of English newspapers (Guardian, USA Today, Telegraph and New York Times) and 22/5 pages of Persian newspapers (Keyhan, Qods and Shargh) focused principally on Iran’s nuclear program negotiations, it was discovered that nominalization can cause marginalization and highlighting by changing information construction of the sentence (theme and rheme), referring to presuppositions, using entailment, omitting the agent and changing the mental models. Nominalization helps the author to make reference to the background knowledge of the reader without giving any repetitive information (coherence). It also helps the writer to use nouns (next to each other) which have the same conceptual meaning (cohesion). Furthermore, it can be concluded that this metaphor is used more frequently in Persian newspapers than in English ones.
Zohre Sadat Naseri; Jalillolah Faroughi Handavalan; Amin Naseri; Ebrahim Mohammadi
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Critical discourse analysis is the modern approach to discourse analysis which has been used in a wide range of disciplines in recent decades, including literature and psychology. Although critical discourse analysis approach prioritizes the relationship among language, power, ideology and discourse ...
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Critical discourse analysis is the modern approach to discourse analysis which has been used in a wide range of disciplines in recent decades, including literature and psychology. Although critical discourse analysis approach prioritizes the relationship among language, power, ideology and discourse in political-social issues, it is possible to analyze and interpret the literature of nations in the context of critical discourse analysis and linguistic criticism. Tarikh-e Beyhaqi is among those literary works which can be studied in the framework of this approach. It enables the analyst to reveal the relationship among power, ideology and discourse. Linguistically examining the episode ‘The Death of Bunasr-e Moshkan’, the present study sought to explore the deep and hidden layers of the text, i.e. the status of the relationship between power and ideology in Ghaznavi period. It also aimed at achieving critical defamiliarization through discovering and interpreting different ideologies in the text. In so doing, the writers used Norman Fairclough’s approach in critical discourse analysis and analyzed the text in descriptive, interpretive and expressive layers. In descriptive layer, word selection, characters and metaphorical aspects are emphasized, so that the ideological approach of Beihaghi is expressed. The noticeable features of this part included the cold and lifeless space dominating the episode, the serious state of society at that time, and the sense of freedom-seeking and desperation of the protagonist. All of these features were masterfully indicated in words and expressions of the episode. In interpretive layer, the emotional and mental crisis of that time and the discourse of different groups of people are interpreted through intertextuality. In expressive layer, the contrasts of mental comfort and discomfort, responsibility and irresponsibility, loyalty and betrayal, and friendship and enmity, adds a contrastive excitement to the episode.
