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The 'sun' shinning upon the 'ever-lasting' country: A diachronic analysis of Iranian national anthems during the 20th century

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2021

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Article

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eng

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18607330

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10.1515/text-2019-0219

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Text and Talk. Vol 41, No.4 (2021), p.441-468

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Adibeik A. The 'sun' shinning upon the 'ever-lasting' country: A diachronic analysis of Iranian national anthems during the 20th century. Text and Talk. Vol 41, No.4 (2021), p.441-468. doi:10.1515/text-2019-0219 Retrieved from: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14740/7015

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The 'sun' shinning upon the 'ever-lasting' country: A diachronic analysis of Iranian national anthems during the 20th century

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Adibeik A.

Abstract

Iran has undergone a metamorphosis in its ideological and national identity due to its historical upheavals in the past century, e.g.The Persian Constitutional Revolution (1906-11), Islamic Revolution (1979), Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). This paper aims to present the diachronic changes in the Iranian official national anthems' lyrics. Through a critical discourse lens, I demonstrate how the socio-political changes have influenced these anthems and how such transformations have shaped the ideological identities of Iranians' pre-and post-Islamic revolution to outsiders via lyrics. More specifically, I show how these identities are constructed through texts and via intertextual means. The findings display that the changes in Iranian anthems not only index a socio-historical transformation, but also a kind of acceleration in terms of political developments in contemporary Iran, and the ways in which the leaders may have employed their own ideological views to project Iranian identities. © 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2021.

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14740/7015

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