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Arefi A, neisi S, nejat S A, behmaram N. (2026). Religion in the service of political ideology in the short story "Heaven" by Zakaria Tamer according to Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis. JSAL. 9(2),
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1- PhD of Arabic Language and Literature, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran. , ahmad.arefi@yahoo.com
2- PhD student, Arabic language and literature, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.
3- PhD student of Arabic language and literature, Lorestan University, Lorestan, Iran.
4- Master of Arabic Language and Literature, Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Iran.
2- PhD student, Arabic language and literature, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.
3- PhD student of Arabic language and literature, Lorestan University, Lorestan, Iran.
4- Master of Arabic Language and Literature, Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Iran.
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Discourse analysis reveals the speaker's ideology through the study of language. Fairclough, in his critical discourse analysis, combined textual analysis with discourse analysis and sociocultural conditions. His theory has three stages: Description: focuses on linguistic features that are consistent with the speaker's ideology. Interpretation: focuses on interpreting the relationship between text and interaction in light of the analyst's intertextuality and mental backgrounds. Explanation: focuses on explaining the relationship between discourse and society based on power. The short story "Paradise" by Zakaria Tamer tells the story of Hassan Gibran, who sacrificed his entire life and possessions to the political rulers to reach his imaginary paradise, then turned his personality into a passive slave without critical thinking to carry out their orders, and criticizes the tyranny that prevails in Syrian society. This article uses a descriptive-analytical method using Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis to examine the ideology of the short story "Heaven" by Zachariah Tamer. The results of the article are that at the level of description, the narrator used styles appropriate to the author's ideology, such as past tense verbs and repetition to emphasize the occurrence of events by dictatorial rulers who used religion as a tool to strengthen their power and enslave humanity, to show the dominance of domination over Syrian society by unknown rulers. At the level of interpretation, the narrator described the social atmosphere through a discourse appropriate to Syrian society using the context of the situation and indirect Quranic inflections. At the level of explanation, the narrator considered religion and politics to be factors affecting the dominant discourse in the short story according to the conditions of Syrian society. He tried to change the dominant ideology, that is, changing oppression to the ideology of equality and democracy.
Keywords: Critical discourse analysis, Norman Fairclough, Zechariah Tamer, The short story ", Paradise", Instrumental religion.
Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
Discourse Analysis
Received: 2027/03/12 | Accepted: 2026/05/29 | Published: 2026/05/31
Received: 2027/03/12 | Accepted: 2026/05/29 | Published: 2026/05/31
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