media Representation of Iranian national identity in sports mega-events during the revolution and war (1979-1989): "New Delhi and Seoul Asian Games and Seoul Olympic"

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
jamalidin akbarzadeh jahromi, 1
masoud taghiabadi 2
1 Assistant Professor of Social Communication Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
2 phd in communication at Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/jcsc.2024.2011499.2696
Abstract
This paper aims to understand how Iranian national identity was represented during sports mega-events during the revolution and war. The method of historical-critical discourse analysis and the approaches of Wodak and Fairclough and the conceptual framework is the theory of "banal nationalism" and the use of the doctrine of "Um-al-Qari". The population is “Donyaye -varzesh” and Keyhanvarzeshi” and the Jomhuri and Keyhan in the Asian Games of New Delhi (1982) and Seoul (1986) and the Seoul Olympics (1988), which was done with theoretical purposeful sampling. the reference to "us" is made by referring to "Iran and Islam", "Muslim nations as a part of itself" and "revolution". predication strategies for positive self-representation are in line with "authority of the Islamic Republic", "issuing the revolution with sports", "Iranian morality", "a great nation", " true Muslim", and "being a fighter" of the Iranian nation. topoi of stability, unity, power, right, altruism, and culture are used to construct an Iranian-Islamic national identity, and history, abuse, threat, and lack of usefulness are used to construct the identity of the "other". In the field of sports, we are witnessing a kind of matching, that is, the order manifested in sports mega-events is based on the global order and the basis of a kind of nation-state. there is a change in the concept of nation and a return to the nation as a religion and its followers. Representation of identity in the media also represents a discourse and has ideological similarities in the coverage of sports events.
Keywords
Iranian national identity
sports media
sports mega-event
discourse analysis
Umm al-Qari
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