خلاصة:
In this article, a contrastive analysis of reformists and fundamentalists’ press texts, related
to nuclear talks has been performed in specific periods of time, before and after the last
round of nuclear talks between Islamic Republic of Iran and the 5+1 group, especially the
United States’ related texts in Iran’s Persian newspapers as representatives of the two
opposite discourses, from the perspective of the Critical Discourse Analysis approach by
using socio-semantic features of Van Leeuwen’s model (2008). This study goes beyond the
structural description of the discourse practices and examines the ways through which a
system and structure make possible a special type of action. To do so, discursive texts of the
two Iranian Persian publications belonging to two rival groups: E’temad as the
representative of reformists and Keyhan, the fundamentalists’ representative, have been
analyzed, both qualitatively and quantitatively. In response to the research questions (How
is the linguistic realization of the discursive structures performed in the given texts? And are
Socio-Semantic features determined by power relations?)The result shows that the opposite
ideologies dominating the minds of journalists of the two political groups are reflected in
the texts and statistical analysis of the corpus also states that the Socio-Semantic features
are determined by different ideologies, related to power relations. In other words, language
and discourse at underlying levels are laden with ideology, power relations and
dominance, and at surface levels, with discursive features and structures.
ملخص الجهاز:
A Contrastive Analysis of Reformists and Fundamentalists Press Texts Related to USA in Nuclear Talks: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach Based on Van Leeuwen’s Socio-Semantic Model of Social Actors 2008 Shirin Gohari1, Ferdows Aghagolzadeh2, Hayat Ameri3 Received: 2017/12/1 Accepted: 2018/5/7 Abstract In this article, a contrastive analysis of reformists and fundamentalists’ press texts, related to nuclear talks has been performed in specific periods of time, before and after the last round of nuclear talks between Islamic Republic of Iran and the 5+1 group, especially the United States’ related texts in Iran’s Persian newspapers as representatives of the two opposite discourses, from the perspective of the Critical Discourse Analysis approach by using socio-semantic features of Van Leeuwen’s model (2008).
E’temaad newspaper, No. 2715, 2013/07/01:3 Activation of the actor and using individualization at the beginning of the text, nomination by usingtitulation in the next step to introduce "Denis Ross", utteranceautonomization by referring to "a report" instrumentalization by indexing "New York Times", using plural form of "Americans" in order to identification, informal nomination of "Rohani" and passivation "him" by using "with" and locating him in the position of receiver of the result of the act.
Activation of Israel and America as actors that participate in attacking Iran is of discursive socio-semantic features of the present text.
Keyhan newspaper, No. 20243, 2012/06/28:3 Spatialization of Washington as the representative of America, and passivation of Iran as a phenomenon in a mental process by using this actor as the subject of the second active sentence are of discursive features of this text.