A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prophet Muhammad's (Peace be upon him and his household) Ideology in his Sermon to Al-Imam Ali (Peace Be Upon Him)

Abstract

Critical discourse analysis is a modern transdisciplinary approach which integrates both linguistic analysis (micro level) and social analysis (macro level). Its main concern is to provide answers to questions about the relation between language and society.

The current paper is a critical discourse analysis of Prophet's Muhammad (Peace be upon him) ideology in his Sermon to Al-Imam Ali (Peace be upon him). It aims to investigate the lexical, structural, and ideological strategies employed in the sermon by adapting Fairclough's (1989) model.