sarvenaz torbati; Amin Mahdavi
Abstract
The objective of the present research concerns nuclear agreements jokes that have propagated in social networks. The critical issue of this research is to illustrate the ideological ...
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The objective of the present research concerns nuclear agreements jokes that have propagated in social networks. The critical issue of this research is to illustrate the ideological aspects and the relationship of these jokes with the political factions in the case of nuclear agreements. The main question is how language shifts to joke and witticism in power relations. Fairclough’s three dimension model of critical discourse analysis is used in this research. Hence a number of jokes in virtual space regarding nuclear agreement have been analyzed. The consequences shows that the fantasy which derives from the ideological aspects of witticism language represents the existing situation and also construct, sustain, and change the social relation and discursive actions. Textual characteristics show positive and negative representation of jokes. The positive representation constructs in the ideology of dominate power (11enth government) and the negative representation construct in the opposition faction (fundamentalism). The genre of joke is in the service of power and is used in order to hegemonies the power discourse.
