The Mysteries of Meaning Production in the Story of Sindbad Bahri Based on Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis

Based on Fairclough's approach, narrative texts can play an important role in recreating cultural, political, social, and meaning-producing structures. One Thousand and One Nights stories have a context based on the production of meaning in the structure of the text and hypertext. The story of the Sindbad Bahri is an example of what has hidden the changeable relation of the act of discourse. In this regard, this study examines the story of Sindbad Bahri based on Fairclough’s theory of critical discourse analysis in three levels of description, interpretation, and explanation using a descriptive-analytical method. It has explored the hidden and obvious layers of meaning of the text of the story. The results of this study show that most of the verbs have a predicative aspect and negative verbs are rarely seen because the existence of positive and predicative verbs shows the omniscience and the narrator's movement in the heart of the story. At the level of interpretation of this story, it expresses the spirit of economic individualism in authoritarian societies where the foundations of Ash'arism and tyranny prevent the government from feeling the duty to maintain a minimum of economic prosperity. The explanation also shows the ideological function of determinism in order to process and produce meaning in the story. The story uses the element of fear, which is a tool of power inequality in the society governing the story and also a sign of acquittal of the ruling class in traditional societies in establishing social justice.