Constitutional discourse in the play "Sheikh Ali Mirza" by Mirza Reza Khan Tabatabai Naini

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Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Graduated from Master of Arts in Theatre Directing, Fine Arts University,University of Tehran

2 Faculty member of Tehran University/Advisor II

10.22059/jsal.2023.362716.666255

Abstract

This study mainly aims at investigating critical discourse analysis in “Sheikh Ali Mirza, the Governor of Borujerd…” by Mirza Reza Khan Tabatabai Naeeni. To respond to questions like: what semantic system has constitutionalism discourse created in the form of author’s worldview and as elements have been used in producing and interpreting text? What signs does this system contain? And what instruments does it use to marginalize the competitor’s discourse, weaken power relations and form and reproduce society intellectual structures? The current study considers constitutionalism discourse, a discourse with ideological function which is in contrast to despotism discourse on one hand, and represents cultural and social and even biological truths that despotism discourse prevents it be represented neutrally, on another hand.

Data has been collected documentarily and by investigating and analyzing the written system of play and text has been analyzed based on Fairclough’s mythological foundations in three levels of “description”, “interpretation” and “explanation”. Due to the dominance of new verbal, lexical, grammatical and declarative traditions of constitutionalism on the texts of this period and the formation of dominant narrative discourse, being a constitutionalist, the author takes a political look at ideological issues hidden in language, class and culture using a comic language. An attitude which is the product of king deconsecration and the substitution of newer political patterns with the centrality of law by means of dominant discourse.

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Sociology of Art and Literature

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 30 July 2023

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