Critical Discourse Analysis of Imam Ali's sermons during public allegiance

Critical discourse theory analisis textual context along with external factors involed in text production. In the meantime, how to represent discourse confrontations in historical texts is one of the most important topics in the theory of cirtical discourse analisis. Sermons play an important role in strengthening or weakening discourse through oral production and the true reflection of the values that govern society. Examining Imam Ali,s sermons during the general allegiance of the people to him, as a symbol of the dominance of the power of critical discourse after the Prophet, can explain the ideology of the narrator and why the a Alawite discourse of society. The research method in the paper is qualitative method based on Norman Farcalf's theory of critical discourse analysis. The results of the discussion show that Amiral- Mu'minin [AS] focused his sermons on re producing the discourse of truth against falsehood and tried to criticize the previous discourse by using the ideological structure that lies in the mental background of the audience ,while criticizing the previous discourses.