TY - JOUR AU - Aftabi, Hussein AU - Moshfegi, Arash PY - 2019/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Discourse Theory: Language, Politics, and Society JF - ReligaciĆ³n JA - rgn VL - 4 IS - 22 SE - South-South DO - UR - https://revista.religacion.com/index.php/religacion/article/view/577 SP - 259-267 AB - This article tries to review definitions of discourse and origin and purposes of discourse analysis. It points out that discourse theory integrates language, power, ideology, politics, and society. Plus, it provides a dynamic domain to analyze social and political phenomena to prove that under the light of discourse theory it is possible to recognize the influences of language on the political and social life of nations. ER -