The present article deals with the changes of political development discourse in the contemporary history of Iran from the triumph of the Constitutional Revolution (1906) up to the end of the second decade of the Islamic Revolution (1998). Findings of a qualiltative research. based on the analytical ...
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The present article deals with the changes of political development discourse in the contemporary history of Iran from the triumph of the Constitutional Revolution (1906) up to the end of the second decade of the Islamic Revolution (1998). Findings of a qualiltative research. based on the analytical discourse and conducted by using the combined pattern of Norman Fairclough and Teun A. van Dijk, forms the basis of analysis in the present article. The research goes through the editorials of the newspapers which represented the ruling discourse during eight historical junctures (1906, 1933, 1941, 1952, 1973, 1979, 1992, and 1998). The article will show that indicators of political developments such as freedom, legalism, civil society, pluralism, competition, and political participation in the first juncture, i.e. 1906, stand and efficacy of the struggles of the Iranian nation to get rid of the historical tyranny. This indicator drops severely in 1933 when the autocratic rule of Reza Shah is on the verge of creation. ln 19-n, the curve begins to ascend once again under the impression of political and social developments, lack of authority and control eht gniyfidom sdrawot gnik gnuoy eht fo ycnednet .tnemnrevog lartnec eht fo people's image of the tyrannous and autocratic rule of Reza Shah, and eruption of some political anarchy; however, it stands at a lower position as
