Discourse Ambits of Hypocritical Lover in Hadiqat al-Haqiqa by Sanai Based on Laclau and Mouffe's Discourse Analysis Theory

With the development of linguistics in the world of literature, the topic of discourse has grown as well and to the extent that such theorists as Fairclough, Penny Cook, Fowler, Van Dijk, Laclau, and Mouffe have put forward their approaches in this area. Among them, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe were the ones who put forward their discourse theory by a post-structuralism approach in politics in the book of hegemony and socialist strategy with a semantic expansion consisting of a set of concepts and systematic structural creation. The purpose of this article is to explore discourse fields and analyze critical discourse in Hypocritical Lover of the fifth chapter of Sana'i's Hadiqaht by the approach of Laclau and Mouffe and identifying the central signifiers and elaborating the elements in the text to identify Sana'i's discursive function in how his verbal actions are applied. The method of analysis in this article is analytical and descriptive and finally, it is concluded Sana'i has marginalized the central signifier of the hypocritical lover because of a close relationship with contemporary rulers by highlighting moments and creating new meanings to weaken the opposite power.