Evolving the concept of "subject" in the approaches to discourse analysis

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

shahnaz karimi ^{1 *} , mehrdad navabakhsh ² , mostafa Azkia ³

1 - پژوهشگر
2 - Professor of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
3 - Department of sociology, faculty of social sciences. Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-05-13 Accepted : 2019-07-26 Published : 2007-12-22

Keywords: discourse analysis, discourse, Subject,

Abstract :

The concept of the subject is rooted in the thoughts of the newborn period, which in the twentieth century found a political nature; the subject can be examined from at least three perspectives; in modern terms, which begins with Descartes, the subject of the subject is a discovery that is independent of metaphysical forces, the ability to think and act Has. From the perspective of post-structuralism and postmodernism, which manifests itself in particular in Foucault's thought, the subject is the invention of the modern age, and it is also declining with the end of modernism. In this sense, the subject is the subjugation of the elements of power, and it all forms in the context of its historical forces and discourses. In the third perspective, the subject is an object that forms in the context of historical forces and discourses, but it also has the power to resist and change it, and it affects it. This paper, by documentary method, studies the concept of a subject in different approaches to discourse analysis. The results of the research show that the subject and its identity have gone through many ups and downs, sometimes in the awe of creative and effective activism and sometimes in the form of passive and enclosed inventory. From the point of view of discourse analysis approaches, especially the approach of Laclau's discourse and subject matter, subjects in particular situations are capable of collapse of discourse and hegemonic creation of another discourse.Keywords: Subject, Discourse, Discourse Analysis.