Ph.D of Sociology, Faculty Member in Department of Social Science of Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran
Abstract
Emphasizing on language as a mediator variant, this article deals with the relationship between the discursive field of the Western media regarding Iran and the same/other discourse of orientalism. Using Bourdieu's language theory and the critical discourse Analysis, we can say that the discursive sphere of media in relation with post-revolutionary Iran is affected by the political field in the West and the subject of the western media is not an autonomous subject but is embedded by the dominant discourse in these societies. The examination of some texts of editorials and political documentaries of the Western media shows that they reproduce and disseminate a highlighted language which is politically oriented and its concepts and propositions reproduce the very "linguistic market of orientalist discourse by articulating new signifiers as terrorism, nuclear weapon, not being democratic and so on. Consequently in this discursive field, the western dominant discourse disseminates its identity through language and represents and denies Iran as its other.