A Critical Discourse Analysis of Surah Al-Qasas Using Norman Fairclough's Approach

Critical discourse analysis is a new approach to discourse analysis that integrates both social and linguistic approaches. In the social approach to discourse, the situational context and in the linguistic approach, the contextual context are described. Norman Fairclough's theory of critical discourse analysis is one of the most popular theories in the field of discourse analysis. While seeking to express the relationship between the internal and external criteria of the text, this theory explores the dominant power of societies where a given literary work has been formed via three dimensions of description, interpretation, and explanation. Taking a descriptive-analytical approach, this article aimed to analyze the discourse of Surah Al-Qasas using Fairclough's approach and answer the following questions: How has the effect of hypertext occurred in Surah Al-Qasas? Has the formal discourse of Surah Al-Qasas been reflected in the social strata? What are the results of the hypertext and formal discourse in this surah? The results show that at the level of description, ideology has been explained by discussing the textual structure such as words and sentences. At the level of interpretation, it is the dominance of the divine discourse that is most clearly seen in the face of arrogant discourses. At the level of explanation, the influence of the hypertext and formal discourse on society, public figures and their future are reflected.