Journal of Public Administration

Journal of Public Administration

Investigation of Relation between Authority Language and Government's Legitimacy: a Critical Discourse Analysis of Imam Khomeini Speech

Authors
Mohammad Sadegh Ziaee
Abbas Nargesian
Manijeh Kia Monfared
Abstract
In democratic governments, major basis of political power is people intention, and government is manifestation of national intention, and it's legitimacy is caused of public intention and will. In democratic governments, is applied political power through active political participation, that base on various political institutions of society is setting by public opinion and under people supervision applying political power and consistency of legitimacy in applying political power depend on acquisition of public satisfaction. In this article is discused to investigation of Imam Khomeini discourse with use of method of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The results of the research exhibit that Imam Khomeini discourse is pluralism, which that is Reproduce rule base and citizenship law.
Keywords
discourse
Discourse analysis
Language
legitimacy
power