In this study I investigate the Iranian Green Movement supporters' use of slogans as political discourse on the Persian-language opposition website www.kaleme.com. Data was collected from the website's Kaleme section in the form of 22 articles and 3,500 user comments. A coding scheme was constructed to measure the presence of categories and themes in the site's comments section. Findings support the propositions of narrative theorists (e.g. Franzosi, 1998; Benford, 1993) that frequent use of slogans in the comments may reflect a unique cultural element of Persian-language political discourse and reinforce the Green Movement's narrative of opposition to the government.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc177249 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Ryan, Trent |
| Contributors | Ignatow, Gabe, Sadri, Mahmoud, Cai, Tianji |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Ryan, Trent, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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