Determining the extent of populist discourse in Iranian Press

作者：Salehi Roohollah^*; Salehi Fatemeh

来源：Life Science Journal-Acta Zhengzhou University Overseas Edition, 2012, 9(2): 1138-U1457.

• populism
• populist discourse
• press
• political tendencies

The general purpose of this study is to determine the extent of dealing the different topics with which different media (in terms of political tendencies) have to do, and, hence, to compare them. Our principal question, therefore, is that what the populist discourse is in Iranian press in 2008? The most important concern, thus, of this article is identifying the indexes of populist discourse to offer an explanation of populist discourse in Iranian press. To do so, the available texts and papers were studied, first of all, and, then, the enumeration was drawn from the indexes considered. In the next stage, enumerated indexes, all together, were presented to the professors and theorists of the field so, while reading it, they would do the modifications. Finally, the proper indexes were selected, taken into consideration, and analyzed in details, respectively. To answer the principal question the hypotheses were set, in the next step. Being determined, thereby, indexes of populist discourse were explored on the basis of questions, hypotheses, and purposes of the study. Using content analysis method, we considered two cases of Keihan newspaper (right wing) and Etemad Meli (left wing) to explore, comparatively, the populist discourse in Iranian press in 2008. In order to examine the proposed hypotheses, therefore, two national newspapers were selected which had different political and socio-cultural attitude, and, also, of same public written structure (what is printed and published), namely, Keihan and Etemad Meli. [(1)Roohollah Salehi and (2)Fatemeh Salehi. Determining the extent of populist discourse in Iranian Press. Life Sci J 2012;9(2):1138-1143] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 169

• 出版日期2012