Word as a Discourse: Evaluation of the Relationship between the Word and Historical Periods and Discourses

Amin, Neda; Sahraei, Reza Morad; Rahbar, Behzad

doi:10.22059/jolr.2021.319610.666700

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ M.A. Student of Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.

² Associate Professor of Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2021.319610.666700

Abstract

Based on Foucault's discourse analysis approach, this study examines participants' discourse perceptions of historical-political words and tries to find the answer to the question of how different historical-discourse formulations and their changing nature is expressed in words as a referent of discourse truth (constructed discourse) and reproduced and recalled by words. In other words, how is the "word" itself a discourse that can be analyzed? This research was conducted in two stages and two questionnaires with 110 and 135 participants. The method of this research is qualitative-quantitative and based on description and analysis. The second questionnaire in 5 groups of questions evaluates the connection of the word with historical periods and discourses, the difference between the discourse of the word in each period, and the individual discourse of the participants. The data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively in the form of statistics and graphs. Quantitative analysis of data from 21 items by SPSS software confirmed a significant relationship between "words" and "historical periods and discourses". The results showed that some words, such as historical-political words, are to some extent formed in discourse and are tied to specific historical discourses. And reciprocally, independently and disregarding any background and verbal context, they can represent and induce that discourse and reconstruct the components related to that discourse in the mind of the addressee. Thus, although the words have their own lexical meaning in the language, according to different contexts, conditions of occurrence, different minds, and finally different discourses, they show different perceptions, influences, and relative meanings and carry different discourses, and the concept they have in the mind is a historical one that has been formed in history. This study concludes that words reflect the reorientation of the discourse formulations and articulations of history and they alone can be studied in discourse analysis and ethnology.

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Volume 12, Issue 1
July 2021
Pages 1-26

Word as a Discourse: Evaluation of the Relationship between the Word and Historical Periods and Discourses

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Bostanee,Gh And et al.2019. Investigating the Changes in the Term of Shiite with Historical Perspective. Research in Shi’a Comparative Theology, 1(1): 99-126.]In Persian.[

Canihac, H. 2020. From nostalgia to utopia: A genealogy of French conceptions of supranationality (1848-1948). Modern Intellectual History, 17(3), pp 707-736.

Daigle, H. 2019. Words Really Can Hurt You: The Potential Impacts of Political Rhetoric on Secondary School Students in the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region. MA thesis. University of California San Diego.

Foucault, M.2003. Nietzsche, Genealogy, History. in: From Modernism to Postmodernism, Cahoone,L.E (Editor). Translated by Abdul Karim Rashidian and others. Tehran: Ney Publishing. ]In Persian.[

Guo, T. 2020. Politics of love: Love as a religious and political discourse in modern China through the lens of political leaders. Critical Research on Religion, 8(1), pp 39-52.

Haghighat, S.S.2003. The confusion of political concepts in contemporary Iran.Political Science.6(24):69-94. ]In Persian.[

Joseph, L. 2021. Re-presenting protestors as thugs: The politics of labelling dissenting voices. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. 12(5): Open Access in: https://www. scopus. com/

Volume 12, Issue 1July 2021Pages 1-26

Volume 12, Issue 1
July 2021
Pages 1-26