On Thursday morning, 17/2/2022, a PhD thesis, entitled (The Deliberative Linguistic Argumentation in the Poetry of Aref Al-Saadi), was discussed at the Department of Arabic Language at the College of Arts / University of Basrah.

The thesis presented by the student Mushtaq Kazem Fahad included three chapters. The first chapter discussed the Linguistic argumentations and the integrated shifting of Decro and Anscomber, the second chapter dealt with the dialectical argumentations of (Van Emeren) and (Rob Grottendorst), and the third chapter included linguistic argumentations and conversational imperatives of (Taha Abdul Rahman).

The discussed that argumentations are not accomplished except in language, which makes it a subject with a verbal dimension that depends on a network of sayings belonging to the deliberative linguistic domain, which at the beginning of its inception focused on studying the ordinary or communicative discourse, but later expanded to include other discourses, including (literary discourse), whether that discourse is poetry or prose, and has developed many of its concepts and analytical mechanisms to harmonize with this discourse in the language.

The thesis concluded that argumentation is one of the most important productive methods that appeared in Aref Al-Saadi’s poetry, which were clearly employed in order to prove his theses and ideas, trying to defend them critically and refuting them by applying them to three argumentation theories.