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Lullabies are popular children's songs that are full of maternal femininity and express the mother's goals, aspirations, sufferings, sorrows and mourning, based on cultural systems and social behaviors that stimulate children's emotions. The present study examines Persian lullabies through textual signs based on critical theory of Norman Fairclough analysis at lexical level using descriptive-analytic research methodology. The corpus of study consists of 1000 hemistich whose application frequency is the basis of this selection. The results of the current research showed that different kinds of lexical classification have been used in this type of song, but the frequency of use in colloquial language is higher than that of other varieties. While the mother's speech has come to express social realities such as patriarchy, gender superiority, spouse disloyalty, poverty and critical economic conditions of the time, they are presented in the form of plaintive and linguistic words with amorphous linguistic language. Accordingly, lexical items of lullabies have an effective role in creating the poetic sense and transferring the maternal sense (fear of the future, hope for the future, repugnance, solitude, and ultimately acceptance of the audience). As the expression of the reality of society in the form of folk words, the child's full understanding of the social, cultural and political realities, as well as the influence of the word of the mother on his mind (the child), have been completely described.

Keywords: Discourse Critical Analysis, caress songs, Norman firclough, Oral Literature.

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