Document Type : Research/Original/Regular Article
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1 PhD in Political Geography, Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 Master of Regional Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3 PhD in Political Geography, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Simultaneously with the outbreak of the eight-year imposed war of Iraq against Iran, a kind of crystallization of the culture of defending values and culture and civilization was formed among Iranians. These characteristics instill in the Iranian man a kind of sacred sense of place. These concepts have entered the Persian language and the languages of the border areas, creating a kind of "cultural geography of sacred defense." In this study, the authors seek to provide an analysis of the sacred defense based on the linguistic approach of Ferdinand de Saussure. This research has been written in an analytical-descriptive manner. The data in this article are also obtained through library and documentary methods. According to the results of the research, the holy defense, by creating and reproducing spiritual concepts from the beginning of Islam, formed a discourse that today has wide language symbols and signs at the national, regional and in some cases global levels. Therefore, the signs and linguistic symbols of the sacred defense discourse are meaningful due to the audience's awareness of this discourse as well as the real and external manifestation of this discourse, and assuming the forgetting of this particular discourse and culture, its signs also become incomprehensible. Therefore, not losing these concepts and value heritage requires far-sighted and practical measures and policies.
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