The Effect of Fairclough’s Approach in Iranian Literacy Texts: Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective

Abstract

The present study was carried out to perform a validity evaluation of Fairclough approach on a poem by Akhavan Sales, called The End of the Shahname. The transferability criteria of Guba and Lincoln were utilized to transfer its results to the environment and other groups. Using the transferability criteria, the three levels of Fairclough’s hypothesis, being description, interpretation, and explanation of the text, is evaluated. The purpose of this study is to answer this question; Can all three levels of Fairclough’s, along with the proposed questions, been applicable in a literary text of Akhavan’s poem? The results of this study represented that all sections are in line with Guba and Lincoln’s emphasis on presenting maximum and rich description in order to increase transferability. Based on the trihedral model of Fairclough, in the level of representation, discourse is considered as a part of a social process. What matters here is the context knowledge. Considering all these, it can be concluded that the points emphasized by Guba and Lincoln on presenting the maximum information and descriptions in order to increase the level of transferability, it is in line with the explanation level of Fairclough model.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n4p658