Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 15، number In Volume 11، February 2023 ، issue Number 81

Critical analysis of Saeb Tabrizi's sonnets based on Norman Fairclough's theory (With an approach to the position of the ascetic in Saeb Tabrizi thought)

Zohreh Davoodi Sani , Mohammad Hojjat (Author in Charge), Farhad Tahmasebi

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Due to the emergence of new literary views and perspectives and the entry of these areas into the studies of literary researchers, including the critical discourse analysis approach, the need to pay attention to literary works in different ways is necessary and inevitable. Fairclough critical discourse analysis is one of the new methods of text analysis in which the relations of power and ideology in the three layers of description, coherence and explanation are considered.

METHODOLOGY: This research was conducted in a descriptive-analytical manner and based on data mining by library studies. The statistical population of this research is Saeb Tabrizi"s lyric poems with the focus on his ascetic status.

FINDINGS: The research findings show that it is possible to achieve in the lower and inner layers and textures of Saeb lyric poems with the focus on asceticism and hypocritical ascetics and the ruling system of society on the occasion of power.

CONCLUSION: A study of Saeb Tabrizi"s sonnets with the focus on asceticism in terms of vocabulary, grammar (description), coherence and level of explanation showed that there are features of Fairclough in the theory of critical discourse analysis in the context and axis of different formal values ​​in these poems.

Keyword
Critical Discourse Analysis , Norman Fairclough , Saeb Tabrizi Ghazals , Interpretation , Description , Explanation

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