PRAGMATIC ENTAILMENT IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE AN ARGUMENTATIVE READING IN LIGHT OF NATURAL REASONING LOGIC

Abstract

The emergence of the political discourse tells of the external contexts and the interactive and communicative atmosphere of the discourse, so reading the discourse requires knowing the occasions of the discourse so that we can know the cultures surrounding the originator of the discourse, and what are the circumstances that resorted him/her to resorting to this argumentative method of argument and not other methods.

The external cultural context has an impact on shaping the discourse, especially if the speech is a political speech that documents the political conflicts that have generated turmoil and splits in the societal environment. Therefore, political speeches occupied the largest space in the knowledge system of Imam Al-Hassan "peace be upon him", in addition to that, the specificity of the religious political discourse, which is fraught with directive and guiding objectives aimed at affecting the recipient of the speech. In order for this effect to take place, the author of the discourse adopted the "inferential logic" based on the "common knowledge" between the two parties to the discourse as way to construct the discourse in an inferential structure with argumentative intentions.