Formation of the Corruption Discursive Order in Iranian Football: CDA of Ninety (90) TV Program

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D candidate in Communication Science at Allameh Tabatabaii University

2 phd holder in Persian Literature, Islamic Azad University

Abstract

This article aims to discourse analysis the concept of corruption in the Ninety (90) TV program and understands how this program is used to criticize corruption and construct the corruption discourse in football. This research has attempted to analyze three programs on corruption using a CDA method and conflating Laclau, and Mouffe with Fairclough, and Van Dijk's approaches to understand the discursive order of the program and to highlights nodal points and moments. In this TV program, the nodal point of Ferdowsipours' discourse is anti-corruption: poor management, slogan-oriented, Lack of seriousness, institutionalism, Lack of government involvement, democracy, and attention to infrastructure are its moments. In the context of political corruption, the involvement of government and politicians in sports affairs is irrational, and attention to democracy and good governance can be helpful. In the context of competitive corruption and bribery, the most important way out of corruption is to pay attention to the cooperation of institutions and administrative and legal grounds. Regarding the dealings in football, the host criticized the people involved in this case and pointed out that corruption in Iranian football is common. In this program, the signifiers for law, governance, equality, and serious struggle are some of the essential signifiers highlighted. Each participant has considered the entry of politics into sports as a factor of Corruption. Furthermore, the focus of the program is more on the social practices in Iran (the current state of football), and its epistemes are based more on the local context.

Keywords


Ahmadvand, M. (2011). Critical discourse analysis an introduction to major approaches. Dinamika Bahasa
Dan Budaya, 5(1), 82-90.
Amundsen, I. (1999). Political Corruption: An Introduction to the Issues, Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute
Development Studies and Human Rights.
Andreff, W. (2016). 4 Corruptionin Sport: Sage.
Berger, P. (1991). The Social Construction of Reality/Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, 1966. Reprinted
in Penguin Books.
Biri
︠u
︡ kov, N. S. (1981). Television in the West and its Doctrines: Moscow: Progress Publishers.
De Sardan, J. O. (1999). A moral economy of corruptionin Africa? the Journal of Modern african Studies,
37(1), 25-52.
Fairclough, N. (1995a). (1995b) Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language. London:
Longman.
Fairclough, N. (1995b). Media Discourse (Erward Arnold, London).
Fairclough, N., & Chouliaraki, L. (1999). Discourse in late modernity.
Foucault, M. (1972). The archaeology of knowledge (AM Sheridan Smith). London, UK: Tavistock
Publications Limited.(Original work published in 1969).
Gorse, S., & Chadwick, S. (2010). Conceptualising corruptionin sport: Implications for sponsorship
programmes. The European Business Review, 4, 40-45.
Habermas, J., & Habermas, J. (1981). Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns (Vol. 2): Suhrkamp Frankfurt.
Hall, S. (2016). 29 NOTES ON DECONSTRUCTING'THE POPULAR'. People's History and Socialist
Theory (Routledge Revivals), 227.
Harrison, E. (2006). Unpacking the anti-corruptionagenda: Dilemmas for anthropologists. Oxford
Development Studies, 34(1), 15-29.
Hebdige, D. (1979). „Subculture, The Meaning of Style”, London and New York, Methuen & Co: Ltd.
Jørgensen, M. W., & Phillips, L. J. (2002). Discourse analysis as theory and method: Sage.
Maennig, W. (2005). Corruptionin international sports and sport management: Forms, tendencies, extent and
countermeasures. European Sport Management Quartely, 5(2), 187-225.
Maennig, W. (2008). Corruptionin international sports and how it may be combated. International Association
of Sports Economists & North American Association of Sports Economists, Working Paper Series, 08-
13.
Mahboob, A., & Paltridge, B. (2013). Critical discourse analysis and critical applied linguistics.
Theencyclopedia of applied linguistics. UK: Wiley Blackwell.
Mallaei, M., & Salimi, A. (2019). Content Analysis of Media Coverage of Corruptionin Iran’s Football: Case
Study of TV Program. Communication Management in Sport Media, 7(2), 111-120.
Mehraein, M. (2008). New Theories of Sociology and Sports. Tehran: Sociologists’ Publishing.
Müller, M. (2011). Doing discourse analysis in Critical Geopolitics. L’Espace Politique. Revue en ligne de
géographie politique et de géopolitique(12).
Narwaya, S. T. G. (2021). Discourse Analysis in the Perspective of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.
Journal Communication Spectrum: Capturing New Perspectives in Communication, 11(1), 1-11. 
Nowell-Smith, G. (1978). Television–football–the world. Screen, 19(4), 45-60.
Riesigl, M., & Wodak, R. (2001). Discourse and Discrimination: London: Routledge.
Schaefer, M., Heinze, H.-J., Rotte, M., & Denke, C. (2013). Communicative versus strategic rationality:
Habermas theory of communicative action and the social brain. Plos one, 8(5), e65111.
Smith, A. M. (2012). Laclau and Mouffe: The radical democratic imaginary: Routledge.
Snowdon, C. J., & Eklund Karlsson, L. (2021). A Critical Discourse Analysis of Representations of Travellers
in Public Policies in Ireland. Societies, 11(1), 14.
Stengel, F. A., & Nabers, D. (2019). Symposium: The Contribution of Laclau’s Discourse Theory to
International Relations and International Political Economy Introduction (Vol. 41, pp. 248-262):
Taylor & Francis.
Stone, C. (2007). The role of football in everyday life. Soccer & society, 8(2-3), 169-184.
Torfing, J. (1999). New theories of discourse: Laclau, Mouffe and Zizek.
Treisman, D. (2000). The causes of corruption: a cross-national study. Journal of public economics, 76(3),
399-457.
Van Dijk, T. A. (1997). What is political discourse analysis. Belgian journal of linguistics, 11(1), 11-52.
Van Dijk, T. A. (2005). Critical discourse analysis. The handbook of discourse analysis, 349-371.
Van Dijk, T. A. (2009). Critical discourse studies: A sociocognitive approach. Methods of critical discourse
analysis, 2(1), 62-86.
Wodak, R., & Meyer, M. (2009). Critical discourse analysis: History, agenda, theory and methodology.
Methods of critical discourse analysis, 2, 1-33.
Yamamoto, K. (2014). Mugabe Fighting Corruption? Forget It! Facebook (Zimbabwe and Africa Candid
Politics), April, 9, 2014.