A Critical Discourse Analysis of Khayam's Quatrains with References to Socio-semantic Discursive Features

Despite the existence of various models of critical discourse analysis in English، the Persian language still lacks an appropriate model for critical analysis of its rich literature and poetry. Therefore، this study was an attempt to carry out a critical discourse analysis on a sample of Khayam’s quatrains drawing on Yarmohammadi’s (2012) model of analysis which itself is based upon Van Leeuwen’s (1996) model. This study applied qualitative methods of data analysis in addition to quantitative ones including computation of frequency and chi-square. Quantitative analysis of the data revealed that among discursive features of various types proposed in this model، functional contexts showed a significantly high frequency as compared with literal contexts. The results from this study indicate that the model of critical discourse analysis proposed by Yarmohammadi (2012) has proved to be useful in the study of literary texts، especially poetry. In the end، it is hoped that the results from this study could pave the way for proposing more comprehensive models of critical discourse analysis particularly for the Persian language.