A Discourse Analytic Study of Vehicle Writings in the Iranian Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2309339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Husain Abdulhay (0000-0001-8493-6743, Payame Noor University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 2463-2478 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9096 • E-ISSN: 1745-2538 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00219096231218445 |
| OpenAlex | W4390340159 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
Language, nowadays, as a means of communication, is scrupulously overhauled and dealt with in all disciplines, from social sciences to politics, especially through the lens of critical discourse analysis (CDA), for deciphering encrypted power and prestige encoded by pragmatic features. This study aimed to examine vehicle writings and inscriptions as a discourse form by adopting a discourse-pragmatic analytical approach to extract the key features of language practices of Iranian drivers through the medium of writing. The inscriptions on cars and automobiles were examined for the pragmatic features built on the Gricean model to excavate the existing conversational implicatures and for the critical interpretation through the insight of CDA to unearth the subtle nexus of power, prestige, privilege, control, authority, resistance, dominance, hegemony, inequality and discrimination. The findings uncloaked the evolving turns of Iranian vehicle writings in terms of form and meaning au courant with the quotidian modus operandi. Tradition is seen to be enlaced with a la mode scripts. The traces of power practice in the discourse of the powerless were found as a means of projection on the roads. The blatant instances of flouting maxims were evidenced in all four types of the principles drawn on the criteria
Context (archaeology · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Dominance (genetics · Epistemology · Hegemony · Ideology · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Prestige · Scripting language · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
Logic and Conversation
Written Text on Pakistani Vehicles
“Moving” Discourse
Bumper Stickers and Car Signs Ideology and Identity
Vehicle Writings in an Iranian Context
The Inscriptions on the Vehicles of Ghanaian Commercial Drivers
When Tricycles Speak
Vehicle Writings as Conveyors of Humour, Slang and Witticism
The Transmission of Moral and Cultural Values across Borders
Reading into Riding Culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |