Studying and analyzing Imam Khomeini''''''''''''''''s revolutionary Islamist discourse based on Laclau and Mouffe''''''''''''''''s theory of discourse

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1 زواره خیابان طالقانی پلاک93

2 Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

3 Master of Political Science, University of Tabriz

Abstract

The present article deals with the analysis and analysis of Imam Khomeini''''s revolutionary Islamist discourse based on Laclau and Mouffe''''s theory of discourse. Discourse analysis has a particular ability to explain the way discourse is structured, the role of political agency in leaders, the discourse of discourse, and why hegemonic discourses are different. This article seeks to answer the question of how the discourse analysis of Imam Khomeini''''s revolutionary Islamist discourse is explained in contrast to competing discourses. To answer the above question, this study proposes the following notion that Imam Khomeini''''s political discourse coincided with a particular social capital that arose from within the Shiite community and was consistent with the history, values, and mental beliefs of the Iranian community. It gained high credibility and access to other discourses, and was able to compete with other competing discourses for superior political and social hegemony. In the struggle for competing discourses of the pre-revolutionary discourse, those discourses were able to maintain their meaning in some way related to the discourse of the Islamic Revolution, and in particular to the speech of Imam Khomeini.
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