TY - JOUR TI - The discourse of Kurdish traditional textiles AU - Abdulkareem Sherwani, Kawa T2 - Industria Textila AB - Verbal communication is not the only way by which people can interact; people communicate with each other through different signs, colours, cultural symbols and costumes. One of the ways that people can communicate through is clothes or textiles. The language of textiles and its covert discourse have not been studied profoundly. Each bit of textile has its specific meaning. Through the discourse of their clothes, people try to show their nationality, age, gender, social status, geographical belonging etc. Kurdish traditional clothes are believed to be culturally rich, since they are dressed by a large number of people in the past and present. This study is an attempt to examine the relationship between discourse and clothes. It tries to study the hidden discourse of Kurdish traditional textiles. The study seeks to answer several questions, including: What do the clothes say about the people who wear them? How different types of clothes show different forms of people’s identity? How do clothes reveal the people’s nationality, age, gender, geographical territory and social class? The principles of discourse analysis, more specifically Foucault’s approach of material discourses, are used to investigate the collected data. The study uses a mixed approach of quantitative and qualitative methods. The data are collected in three ways: by analysing the photo albums, a survey and a site visit to Kurdish Textile Museum in Erbil. The study concludes that the pieces of textiles can be seen as linguistic elements in communications and Kurdish traditional clothes embraces specific cultural codes and symbols that can be used to reveal the discourses they embrace. DA - 2021/12/21/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.35530/IT.072.06.1825 DP - DOI.org (Crossref) VL - 72 IS - 06 SP - 623 EP - 631 SN - 12225347 UR - http://revistaindustriatextila.ro/images/2021/6/07%20KAWA%20ABDULKAREEM%20SHERWANI%20Industria%20Textila%206_2021.pdf Y2 - 2021/12/28/09:06:50 ER -