Seyyed Mohammad Mehdizadeh
Volume 16, Issue 31 , December 2016, , Pages 105-130
Abstract
This article studies four episodes of BBC Persian’s “Pargar” on the relation between religion and modernism, and specifically Islam and politics using discourse analysis. It concludes that the dominant discourse of Pargar is philosophical-ideological and political secularism. These ...
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This article studies four episodes of BBC Persian’s “Pargar” on the relation between religion and modernism, and specifically Islam and politics using discourse analysis. It concludes that the dominant discourse of Pargar is philosophical-ideological and political secularism. These two discourses reject and deny the combination of religion and politics and reject the idea of religious governance and also indicate symbolic violence against political Islam and try to eliminate it. Since they have power and access to public tribunes, they express their understanding of the world in the form of a discourse and give all affairs and phenomena a meaning congruent to their core signifier. Secular discourse works towards defining and empowering and also suppressing and omitting. Secularism is formed against Islamic tradition and faith and also becomes a legitimizing principle to suppress political activities in the region.
Mohammad Mehdi Forghani; Hossein Basirian Jahromi; Sara Mahdavi
Volume 16, Issue 29 , June 2015, , Pages 73-99
Abstract
Membership Categorization, first explored as a term by Harvey Sacks in the mid-1960s. The primary efforts of Sacks led to present the Membership Categorization Devices (or MCDs), in which the categories and their characteristics introduced. This article, studies the procedures of Membership Categorization ...
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Membership Categorization, first explored as a term by Harvey Sacks in the mid-1960s. The primary efforts of Sacks led to present the Membership Categorization Devices (or MCDs), in which the categories and their characteristics introduced. This article, studies the procedures of Membership Categorization as a discourse analysis approach, towards Pargar Programs, focusing on Religious Subjects broadcasted from BBC Persian during 2010 to 2012, trying to find key points of Sacks’ work in combination with Norman Fairclough's semantics of three levels of description, interpretation and explanation. Findings show that just around one of the three words which representing Islam, were relatively positive, while the two of them, were negative and usually based on anti-Islamic stereotypes. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of these programs emphases on one episode (Islam Nature) also shows that Pargar represented Islam as a religious of violence, putrefaction, untruth, anti-modernism, and anti human rights.
