Document Type : علمی- پژوهشی

Authors

• mohammad afshinvafaie ¹
• Mahdi firouzian Haji ²

¹ Group of Language & Literature, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

² Researcher, Academy of Persian Language and Literature.Tehran, Iran

Abstract

This article, seeks to reveal the hidden layers of discursive communication in Sufi language and to study textual structure of Auhaduddin Kermani’s Managheb, a Persian mystic and poet of the sixth and seventh centuries. In order to achieve this purpose, the linguistic elements (nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, plural nouns, adverbs, synonyms, numbers), the structural and contextual dimensions (context and position, inversion and suspension of reality, reject criticism and questioning) and their links with the dominant discourses (the prophets, the system of caliphate and the government, the mystic elders and other texts) have been examined in three steps of description, explanation and interpretation. Finally, by comparing a common anecdote in Auhaduddin Kermani’s Managheb, and Attar’s Tazkirat al-Awliya, critical and comparative structural analysis of the text is discussed.



This article, seeks to reveal the hidden layers of discursive communication in Sufi language and to study textual structure of Auhaduddin Kermani’s Managheb, a Persian mystic and poet of the sixth and seventh centuries. In order to achieve this purpose, the linguistic elements , the structural and contextual dimensions (context and position, inversion and suspension of reality, reject criticism and questioning) and their links with the dominant discourses (the prophets, the system of caliphate and the government, the mystic elders and other texts) have been examined in three steps of description, explanation and interpretation. Finally, by comparing a common anecdote in Auhaduddin Kermani’s Managheb, and Attar’s Tazkirat al-Awliya, critical and comparative structural analysis of the text is discussed.

Highlights

Critical discourse analysis of modernity in School Principal and Journey to     the end of the night of Jalal Al-e-Ahmad & Louis-Friednand Céline, based on Norman Fairclough approach

1. 1. Mohammad Mohammadi-Aghdash (responsible author), Assistant professor of French language and literature department of Tabriz University
2. 2. Behnam Moharramzadeh, P.H.D student of French literature, Islamic Azad University, Sciences and research unit of Tehran

Introduction

The category of discourse is beyond of sentences-statement and any simple conversation. It is a belief which formed as ideology and faith and appears in behavioral reactions. The influence of dominant discourse on the society, in particular, while is applied by the policy (power discourse), become inevitable on actions, thought and discourse of people (formal discourse) and these two groups, (power & people) could be in parallel or in conflict. Gee James Paul (1999) believes that, “discourse entails something more than language. Discourses always entail coordination of language with method, interaction, valuation, believing, feeling, bodies, clothes, non-verbal symbols, objects, tools, technologies, time and location.”

Michel Foucault, famous philosopher and reviewer of French literature also claims that discourse is an area (verbal-linguistic) in which various verbal interactions and relations are described simply. He doesn’t consider discourse as a set of symbols but regard them as the practices which form the subjects that speak about them. The discourse analysis tries to analyze the correlation between content and one beyond it which could be affected by society, other contents and/or cultural-political-social events and be inferred as pluralistic, consciously and/or unconsciously ideologies from tongue of characteristics, through lingual forms. The critical discourse analysis which is a new and interdisciplinary branch in humanities and particularly in area of linguistic critique, in recent years, especially in scientific and philosophic circles, has been developed and manifest in analysis of different social-political problems and indeed literal contents. Norman Fairclough the theorist and founder of Philosophy-linguistic stream could refresh the power and people discourse concept through ideological structures obtained from lingual forms at end of 20th century through reviewing theories of semiotics, Gadamer’s hermeneutics, Michel Foucault’s paleontology and also by rejecting solely economist views of the neo-communists and meanwhile by looking at post-structuralism of Derrida.

In real, the approach of critical discourse analysis tries to show how one discourse affected by other social factors and how could be productive by relying on lingual forms and other social factors and replicate consistent ideas and reproduce formal and/or power discourse.

Goal

Previously, different research has been conducted in field of both studied works of present article which some also has been performed comparatively. What is considered an innovation in the present research and authors motivated to research is that up to now none research has involved Fairclough’s theory in review of school principal (modir Madrese) and Journey to the end of the night stories. Thus authors sincerely hope to that, present research could take a step in this course.

The infrastructure of research work of this article would be the answer to the following two questions:

1) what role does modernity play in formation of discourse in given two stories?

2) How does Norman Fairclough theory, explain this main role?

Method

Norman Fairclough, Founder of critical discourse analysis (interdisciplinary) concept category also believes that in review of literal context of one work, only the lingual-grammar structure and created actions in the sentences inside content aren’t effective, but different cultural, social and political factors play role; Thus in analysis of content, the role of situational content should be considered. In real, the critical discourse analysis tries to recognize and review the ideological structures which are created during time through power discourse and is considered as axiom and natural beliefs by the author consciously and unconsciously and transferred to reader through linguistic cores as well as to evaluate their origin. Therefore, in the present article the parallel discourses of given two stories is analyzed as descriptive-analytical form and by applying fairclough’s theory and the critical relation of power and people is evaluated on three levels. Therefore, the analysis of discourse in the present research, firstly relies on lingual substructures and reviews the phonemics brevity, question marks, exclamation marks and new words which totally include the description level and linguistic dimension of discourse analysis. The second step of discourse analysis (level of interpretation) applies to situational content and susceptibility as well as evaluate social-historical fields and also ideological influence of contents. In third, and final step of discourse analysis (level of explanation), the three cases of reproduction of formal discourse, impact of power on the society and influence of formal discourse and power relations on future of the society are reviewed. Therefore, critical discourse analysis on give three levels, reviews language and ideology and studies discourse generality of works which include form and content.

Conclusion

Based on  critical discourse analysis of Norman Fairclough’s theory, two stories of school principal and Journey to the end of the night on three levels (description, interpretation and explanation) is reviewed and the explicit result which obtained is that both contexts, in  their formal-narrative discourse criticized dominant discourse (power) on total levels, especially in hidden and underlying layers of context, directly and indirectly and tried through it, to help for culture and public discourse. The major characteristics of both stories also by resort to slang language which sometimes appears ridiculous and has its specific ideological mechanisms, display the contemporary tragedy under subject of modernity as well as criticize it seriously. The study of these two novels shows that the greedier modern man is towards science, materialism and profiteering rationalism, the more he feels lonely. The last and more important point is that autobiographic feature of both stories, has aided well to narrative matching of situational context and this matter would be more rich by different references to other contexts in intertextuality context.  

Keywords: Al-e-Ahmad, Céline, Fairclough, Critical Discourse Analysis, linguistic criticism, Modernity.

References:

1-Gee, James Paul, (1999), An introduction to discours analysis:  Theory and Methode, London, Routledge.

2-Dreyfus, Hubert’, Rabinow, Paul (1398), Michel Foucault beyond Structuralism and Hermereutics, translation of Dr. Hossein Boshrieh, Tehran, Nei publication.

Keywords

• The language of power
• Sufism
• Auhaduddin Kermani
• Managheb

Main Subjects

• Sufism and Mysticism