期刊名称：Critical Approaches to Discoures Analysis across Disciplines
电子版ISSN：1752-3079
出版年度：2013
卷号：6
期号：2
页码：154-173
出版社：CADAAD
摘要：This article examines and compares the discursive representation of Iran's brain drain in the political discourse of Iranian authorities during the time of Mohammad Khatami and Mahmud Ahmadinejad, two Iranian presidents with different political orientations. The aim is to uncover the global political goals of the speakers. Lee's (1966) model of migration is used to define and outline the factors and groups that are involved in the process of brain drain and van Leeuwen's (2008) sociosematic framework for the representation of social actors is applied to examine how different actors are represented in different discourses. During the first period reformists ascribed brain drain to political and managerial issues caused by the Islamic principalists. The main actors in their discourse about brain drain were the opposition and the migrants and brain drain was pictured as a product of the pressures and limitations imposed by the Islamic principalists on the university students and the educated class. With this representation reformists seemed to try to win the support of the youth while keeping themselves in a secured zone. In the second period Mahmud Ahmadinejad denied brain drain. The Islamic fundamentalists attributed the phenomenon to the migrants' lack of religious faith and the government ascribed it to their lack of national attachment. Politicians and authorities as a social actor group were almost absent in the governments' remarks. Such definition and representation of brain drain by Islamic principalists and fundamentalists seemed to follow the objective of legitimizing government's actions and policies in front of their supporters
关键词：brain drain; political discourse; discursive representation; reformists; Islamic ;principalists
