Seyedeh Marjan Tabatabaee; Farough Amin Mozaffari; Mohammad Abbaszadeh; Samad Sabbagh
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The purpose of this research is to study the feminist discourse in the contemporary Iran. The data of our research are gathered from Zanan (Women) and the Feminist School magazines. Therefore, we looked at the feminist discourse in the texts of these magazines from 1992 to 2011. We also have used the ...
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The purpose of this research is to study the feminist discourse in the contemporary Iran. The data of our research are gathered from Zanan (Women) and the Feminist School magazines. Therefore, we looked at the feminist discourse in the texts of these magazines from 1992 to 2011. We also have used the historical and social data of Iran over this period. The results show that the basic structure of the discourse of feminism represents five different articulations. Each of the articulations was formed on the basis of five various nodal points; women's economic participation, religious innovation, human rights, secular religiosity and inter-movement coalition. Often the main antagonist between the feminist discourse and the dominant discourse is over unequal gender laws. This is due to the different perceptions of femininity in the two discourses. Eventually, this antagonism led to a shift in the discourse of feminism from a democratic discourse to a popular one.
Hadi Zeini Malekabad; Mohammad reza Hasani
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Analyzing the relationships between different scientific fields makes research possible, especially those fields where questions can only be answered by an interdisciplinary analysis. The connection between social knowledge and other scientific fields has long been developed and enabled answering the ...
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Analyzing the relationships between different scientific fields makes research possible, especially those fields where questions can only be answered by an interdisciplinary analysis. The connection between social knowledge and other scientific fields has long been developed and enabled answering the questions in various fields. Proper use of social science knowledge in explaining religious texts with various linguistic structures is of importance. In this research, a descriptive-analytical method was adopted to analyze the relationship between social science knowledge and linguistic approaches to indirectly enable the analysis of religious texts. Studies show that the relationship between social knowledge and other scientific fields has not been established all at once, but has gone through at least three stages. In the third stage, in the early twentieth century, social science was affected by linguistics. The emergence of new linguistic approaches created a novel approach to analysis of social texts. With the methodological revolution in linguistics, structuralist and post-structuralist approaches emerged in the social sciences that emphasized the importance of language in social relations. In this study, considering the third stage, namely the relationship between social science knowledge and linguistics, the bilateral effect of these two fields is shown. Based on this basic research, it is possible to conduct a discourse analysis of the texts in Quran and Hadith, law, literature, and various fields which have a close link with linguistics.
aboutorab talebi
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This paper investigates an aspect of new sectarianism with special emphasis on New Spirituality in Iran. It uses the theory of subjectivism proposed by Canadian thinker, Charles Taylor, alongside Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis to analyze signs of new spiritualism. Data was collected through ...
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This paper investigates an aspect of new sectarianism with special emphasis on New Spirituality in Iran. It uses the theory of subjectivism proposed by Canadian thinker, Charles Taylor, alongside Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis to analyze signs of new spiritualism. Data was collected through examining available resources and through deep interviews with advocates of this discourse. Examining available resources revealed that the semantic system of spirituality is as a discourse based on a number of themes and signs, including: centrality of the self, i.e. a journey from a life in line with external demands to an authentic, original life in the inside, individualism, holistic attitude, hybridity, and using psychology and individuality. Empirical studies have proven that the formation of new spiritualism as a discourse was an indication of internal conflicts and ambiguities in making sense of religious discourse. This issue was a challenge for the development of religious discourse and a threat to its face as the dominant discourse, which finally opened up the gates for discourse of spirituality. Studies indicate that this discourse is still in the phase of formation in Iran. In other words, it is not yet stable and its meanings are not yet clear, and, therefore, is far from turning into a hegemonic discourse.
Jafar Hezarjaribi; Reza Safari Shali
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Abstract The present study analyzes the discourses of social justice using Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's discourse theory, with reducing poverty and deprivation as the central sign in the First to Fifth Development Plans Bills (approved in the three governments of Hashemi, Khatami, and Ahmadinejad). ...
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Abstract The present study analyzes the discourses of social justice using Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's discourse theory, with reducing poverty and deprivation as the central sign in the First to Fifth Development Plans Bills (approved in the three governments of Hashemi, Khatami, and Ahmadinejad). It aims at revealing the differences in approach, policymaking, and function of the discourses through studying the main signs and specific articulations of each discourse and exploring the effects of non-discursive factors on every discourse. The results of the discourse analysis of the texts indicated that the Construction Government, with its hegemony over the political and social space of the country, attempted at othering of the government of Mousavi through criticizing the representation of social justice in the first decade ofthe Revolution, and its principles and indicators, especially with regards to the payment of subsidies by the government to the people. It presented a new representation of social justice, which was highly influenced by the post-war political and social space of the country, the necessity of reconstruction of damages caused by war, economic reform of the country, and move towards economic growth in order to obtain the financial resources required for the construction and reconstruction of the country. Accordingly, a new economic concept, with economic growth as its primary indicator, was introduced by the government in representation of the floating signifier of social justice. The reformist discourse, with an emphasis on political development, proposed the association of political and economic development necessary for the realization of the floating signifier of social justice with reducing poverty and deprivation as the central sign. The last hegemonic discourse in the Islamic Republic of Iran, known as the discourse of justice-oriented Principlism, attempted to implement the economic development plan through othering the previous discourses and proposing a specific definition of the floating signifier of justice. In this level, with regards to the represented concept of social justice in this discourse, which involves equal distribution of opportunities and facilities among people and regions of the country so that all parts of the country can develop together and coordinately, the government of Ahmadinejad placed on its agenda, alongside the targeted subsidy plan, a new kind of privatization, which involved the payment of justice shares, i.e. distribution of shares of public companies among people instead of transfer of those companies to individuals.
hosein sarvari
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This research with aim of surveying the traditionalism discourse of music in contemporary Iran is studying the features and basic element of forming and genesis of this discourse. So with the historical genealogy and presentation of discoursal features of this period exhibit a semantic interpretation ...
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This research with aim of surveying the traditionalism discourse of music in contemporary Iran is studying the features and basic element of forming and genesis of this discourse. So with the historical genealogy and presentation of discoursal features of this period exhibit a semantic interpretation of that discourse. Regarding the perspective of Cultural Studies, genealogy manner and historical analysis of discourse, this article shows that how political, social and cultural context influence directly or indirectly that discourse . The consequences of this article are gathered by the help of modal way and by the usage of discourse analysis and historical genealogy. At the time the discourse is recognized against modernism discourses and formed in the shadow of political, social and cultural conditions of Iran. In that period, holding the international congress of Iran's music in 1961 and establishment of Preservation and Diffusion Center [for music] are considered as turning points for the formation of basic elements of traditionalism discourse.
nematollah fazeli; roozbeh kardouni
Volume 15, Issue 41 , August 2008, , Pages 125-161
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This paper examines the discursive structure of Hashemiye Rafsanjani s state welfare discourse in the years 1368- 1376. [t is intended to find out and demonstrate all the main elements of the welfare discourse through Interpretation and recognition of meanings of the discourse examined in its socio-historical ...
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This paper examines the discursive structure of Hashemiye Rafsanjani s state welfare discourse in the years 1368- 1376. [t is intended to find out and demonstrate all the main elements of the welfare discourse through Interpretation and recognition of meanings of the discourse examined in its socio-historical context. The significant of is study can be explained by the fact that social welfare has always been one of the outrnost criteria of assessing the amount of achievement of all states. It is also a common interest of the states and citizens. This study is methodological based• on Focult s andFercluagh s discourse analysis approach and method. Ferclogh distinguishes three levels of discourse analysis including descriptive, interpretive and explanatory levels. This paper consists of definition of the problem, literature review, and methodology and the data analysis. It is discussed and argued that the social welfare policies of Development Discourse of Rafsanjani state were oriented towards and focused on economical welfare factors such as housing: social insurance, work, and subsides. In this discourse other aspects of welfare such as political factors were ignored and excluded form the state policies
