Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• forough Taloo Samadi ¹
• Farzane Farahzad ²
• Zahra Abolhasani ³

¹ Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.

² Professor of Translation Studies, Allame Tabatabayi University, Tehran, Iran.

³ Associate Professor of Linguistics, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The current research is a historical and linguistic study of the first women publications in the post-constitutional era. Examining the demands of women in these publications can be a way to understand the nature of women''s movements until today. In this regard, and to answer how women''s voices are expressed in their published works, all the available issues of the two magazines "Shokofeh" and "Zaban Zannan" in the National Library, of Iran as well as a number of books and articles related to the historiography of women''s movements, were used as the corpus of the research. Based on Lacla and Mouffe''s discourse theory, articulations of the dominant discourses of these publications were examined. By taking into account the historical and social conditions the study showed that the confrontation between tradition and modernity played an essential role in the emergence of these discourses. Perhaps it can be concluded that the main signifiers of the discourse of modernity, with the help of the signifiers of the discourse of tradition, led to the formation of empty signifiers, some of which did not enter the social imagination, and emerged as suppressed concepts in other historical periods and in other forms, also brought social movements.

Keywords

• discourse
• women''s publications
• articulation
• Hegemony
• Laclau and Mouffe
• Gender

Main Subjects

• Discourse Analysis