Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
2 PhD in North American Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The present study is an attempt to examine how Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter crash has been represented in NOW corpus (around 19.2 billion words). Inspired by the Bakers (2006) framework of corpus-assisted analysis on the one hand and Laclau and Mouffe’s Discourse Theory (2001) and van Dijk’s Ideological Square (2004) on the other hand, the analysis of the representation of this event has been conducted based on the Keynes parameter and the semantic categorization based on a detailed reading of concordance lines. A corpus-based categorization is a tool that can lead to articulating the semiotic system of the western worldview toward this incident that can lead to articulating the semiotic system of the west worldview toward this incident. The data eventually demonstrates a two-type representation of this event. On the one hand, it narrates some reactions by others, as the Islamic Republic's allies or enemies, which, on the deeper side, it moves its audience toward a kind of other-making contemplation; producing three types of other-makings based on Raisi’s different positions as a judge, president and a religious figure. This discourse turns around a nodal point of a binary representation of good and evil from the late president.
Keywords
- Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
- Ebrahim Raisi’s Helicopter Crash
- In-group & Out-group
- NOW Corpus
- Semiotic System
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