Critical Discourse Analysis
Maryam Rashidi
Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2022, , Pages 27-65
Abstract
The present research analyses Hafez's mystical language with an analytic-descriptive method and according to Norman Fairclough’s three levels pattern: description, interpretation and explanation. Then answers to this main issue: Why, how and by using which lingual structures did Hafez create his ...
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The present research analyses Hafez's mystical language with an analytic-descriptive method and according to Norman Fairclough’s three levels pattern: description, interpretation and explanation. Then answers to this main issue: Why, how and by using which lingual structures did Hafez create his mystical discourse and make it comprehensible? For this purpose, after describing Hafez's mystical poems according to Michael Halliday’s systemic-functional linguistics framework and relying on the ideational metafunction of language in that framework, by observing the interlingual and extralingual contexts of the poems and with an intertextual analysis, it interprets and explains them ideologically. The results of the research indicate that the distinguished mystical features in Hafez's mystical language have some points in common with other mystical texts and besides presenting the intertextual characteristics and general principles of mystical discourse, they indicate Hafez's personal and ideological views related to cultural and social conditions of his time. The achievement of the present research is to justify and describe Hafez's mystical language scientifically and pattern based and also to express how and why his mystical discourse is formed, produced and comprehended with applying effective and reliable instruments of critical discourse analysis. Therefore, the achieved results are reliable and based on modern linguistics authentic and reasonable rudiments and are also far from generalization and its following mistakes.
Critical Discourse Analysis
Maryam Rashidi; Sayyedeh Rozatian
Volume 13, Issue 2 , February 2022, , Pages 49-78
Abstract
One of the effective methods to study the semantic aspects of mystical language in literary texts is critical discourse analysis, which is a new attitude of discourse analysis in linguistics studies that analyses texts considering sociocultural context. The present research analyses Hafez's mystical ...
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One of the effective methods to study the semantic aspects of mystical language in literary texts is critical discourse analysis, which is a new attitude of discourse analysis in linguistics studies that analyses texts considering sociocultural context. The present research analyses Hafez's mystical language with an analytic-descriptive method and based on Fairclough’s pattern and answers to this issue: How and why did Hafez create his mystical discourse and make it comprehensible? For this purpose, after describing Hafez's mystical sonnets according to Halliday’s systemic-functional linguistics framework and relying on the interpersonal metafunction of language in that framework, by observing the interlingual and extralingual contexts and with an intertextual analysis, it pulls out the reasons and explanations required from the beddings of his words and interprets and explains them ideologically. The results of the research indicate that factors performing the interpersonal metafunction in Hafez’s language are marked and discursive; they play an ideological role and are considered discursive features. The interpretation and explanation of these meaning features indicate that worldview, ideology, power relations and epistemological devices are the main effective factors in the formation and comprehension of Hafez’s mystical discourse. The achievement of the present research is to justify and describe Hafez's mystical language scientifically and pattern based and also to express how and why his mystical discourse is formed, produced and comprehended with applying effective and reliable instruments of critical discourse analysis. Therefore, the achieved results are based on linguistics authentic and reasonable rudiments and are also far from generalization and its following mistakes.
