Preempting the past: How the future space unfolds in political discourse of Iran

IF 2.4 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1177/09579265221088142

Ali Basarati

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Abstract

This paper is to analyse 180 speeches of the Iranian Supreme Leader (SL), Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei, from 2005 to 2013 which are concentrated upon characterising the threats of doshman [enemy] and depicting the future space of Iran. Adopting the Proximisation Theory, the investigation of the Iranian Supreme Leader’s speeches reveals that doshman poses futuristic spatial-axiological threats to the central values, programmes and policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). Furthermore, the future space of Iran is figured in multifarious policies to preempt the construed spatial-axiological threats of doshman. In this regard, I indicated that the Supreme Leader resorts to the characterisation of the pre-revolutionary states of affairs (the past) to analogously characterise the opposite futures space of the IRI. Therefore, the SL programmes to mould the futures based on the present time values and programmes in order to abort the re-birth of the past. It was also indicated that the future space in this discourse serves to preempt the reification of the construed threats in the future.

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抢占过去：伊朗政治话语中的未来空间如何展开

本文旨在分析伊朗最高领袖哈梅内伊(Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei)从2005年至2013年的180次演讲，这些演讲集中在描述doshman[敌人]的威胁和描绘伊朗的未来空间。采用近因理论，对伊朗最高领袖演讲的调查显示，doshman对伊朗伊斯兰共和国(IRI)的核心价值观、计划和政策构成了未来的空间价值论威胁。此外，伊朗的未来空间在各种政策中都有体现，以先发制人地应对doshman的空间价值论威胁。在这方面，我指出，最高领袖利用革命前(过去)事态的特征来类似地描述IRI的相反未来空间。因此，SL计划根据现在的时间价值和计划来塑造未来，以中止过去的重生。有人还指出，这一论述中的未来空间有助于在未来将所解释的威胁具体化。

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期刊介绍： Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.