نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
The present study provides a discourse-analytic examination of the representation of Ali-Asghar Boroujerdi (known as Asghar the Killer) in the book The Sphinx of Crimes (Abolhol-e Jenayat). The central inquiry of this research pertains not to the adjudication of the defendant’s empirical psychological state or internal motivations, but rather to the investigation of the textual mechanisms through which the “image of the killer” is constructed and stabilized within the narrative. In this study, Jean Pinatel’s theory of the criminal personality is employed not as a definitive clinical diagnostic model, but as a heuristic tool for the classification and coding of narrative signifiers. Drawing upon the discourse-theoretical framework of Laclau and Mouffe, the research scrutinizes the articulation of signs and the discursive mechanisms of meaning fixation within the text. The data are derived from the book’s primary narrative and related textual evidence, analyzed through key analytical categories including nodal points, chains of equivalence, and the logic of othering. The findings demonstrate that the narrative mobilizes the core tenets of Pinatel’s criminal personality—namely egocentrism, emotional lability, aggressiveness, and affective indifference—as “discursive signifiers” to position the subject as “absolute evil” and to reinforce the hegemony of the dominant legal-moral discourse over the narrative of crime. Ultimately, the study illustrates how documentary literature plays a pivotal role in the production of “criminal truth” and the redefinition of the boundaries between the normative and the deviant, thereby offering a novel model for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of theoretical criminology and discourse analysis.
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