semantic processing

Critical discourse analysis as a novel branch of human knowledge defines discourse based on specific methods and frameworks. This model analyzes language aiming at revealing hidden power relations and ideological processes in linguistics. One of the basic theories in the field of critical discourse analysis is the theory of practical discourse analysis method which is carried out in the discourse analysis of religious texts in five discursive, structural, semantic, communicative and meta-discourse spheres. The present research employed descriptive-analytical methodology to study governance ties in the speech of Imam Ali (PBUH) through enlisting Practical Critical Discourse Analysis Method. The result of the research revealed that the speech of Imam Ali (PBUH) was charged by an extra-discursive, political and psychological atmosphere. Also, Imam's speech was imbued with aappealing diction and a special semantic characteristic that inspired the school ideology of the Imam. This discourse was of course not oblivious to intra-discourse connections, and traces of this intra-textual connection could be detected in Imam's speech