Study of Nature of Language of Government in Three Decades of Islamic Revolution of Iran and Design Its Efficient Pattern in Iran

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Bureaucracy is became dominant Structure of government, however, language of government is largely became by language of bureaucracy. Many of the problems of public administration are to be traced to, and found in, the language of bureaucracy. This thesis examines the nature of language of government in three decades of Islamic Revolution of Iran and designs efficient pattern of language of government for fourth decade. Methodology was used by Fairclaugh and Van Disk’s critical discourse analysis approaches for studying current situation and Delphi method for designing efficient pattern of language of government. Population is included speeches of public administrators that publish in newspapers. Selected sample was 28 texts in Jomhori Eslami newspaper that theoretical saturation was basis for sampling method and was used theoretic sampling in first step and snowball sampling in second step in Delphi method. Results of study indicates that nature of language of government in three decades of Islamic Revolution of Iran (current situation) is closed to bureaucratic language and efficient pattern of language of government (desirable situation) should move toward to post bureaucratic language; which is honest, nation building, participative, accountable, veneration of citizens, attention to public interests, justice oriented, transparent and ethic oriented language

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