Critical Discourse Analysis
Zohreh Niksiyar; Maryam Dorpar
Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, , Pages 125-160
Abstract
In various texts, lexical and rhetorical variables play a prominent role in directing the content, and conveying ideology explicitly or implicitly. In the present research, in order to evaluate the level of frankness or concealment of the authors, the function of four stylistic and discourse-orientated ...
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In various texts, lexical and rhetorical variables play a prominent role in directing the content, and conveying ideology explicitly or implicitly. In the present research, in order to evaluate the level of frankness or concealment of the authors, the function of four stylistic and discourse-orientated variables, "idioms", "vocabularies belonging to specific discourses", "symbolization" and association of meanings" and "narrative allegory" in a number of narratives of Persian socialist realism, written between 1320-1332, have been examined in the framework of critical stylistics. The results show that although all the authors of the works in the question sought to reflect the ruling spirit of the time and legitimize the struggle against domination, but in transferring this ideology to the audience, they have acted in two different ways. Party writers who have been in direct contact with the Tudeh party and have produced their narrative works on the order of this party, Do not have much desire to use the methods of concealing ideology, such as symbolizing and associating meanings, as well as allegory. They mostly use the stylistic alternative of using words belonging to specific discourses to convey the desired ideology naked. This is while critical and independent writers from the Tudeh party, using rhetorical techniques of symbolization and association of meanings as well as allegory, have tried to deepen the text, hide the ideology and implicitly induce it to the audience and the audience is placed not only in contrast to the structural and repressive power ruling the society, but in contrast to the ruling values and their hegemonic domination.
