EXPLANATION OF IMAM BAQIR’S ARGUMENTATION METHOD BASED ON JOHN SEARLE’S SPEECH ACT THEORY

Imam Baqir's (peace be upon him) method and style, like those of other Infallible Imams (peace be upon them), play a fundamental role in shaping the current popular and Shiite ideals. It seems that through the analysis of his arguments in a tradition in the Chapter of the Proof, inUsool al-Kafi based on linguistic theories, new insights can be gained. This article is based on John Searle's theory of speech acts, which has played a special role in the development of discourse analysis. From John Searle's perspective, speech acts are divided into declarative, persuasive, emotive, commissive, and expressive parts. The investigation shows that in Imam Baqir's (peace be upon him)arguments, the act of expression is used more than the other acts, which are used much less. In other words, the text of the Tradition is most used to express the truth and then to encourage the audience on the matter of divine argument and to announce the conditions for accepting or rejecting the Imamate. Matching the contextual situation of the Tradition with the types of acts used in the text indicates the audience's awareness and deep understanding of the contextual situation, as the Imam's discourse is, in fact, his reaction against the deviation of the Islamic society regarding the divine mandate and the erroneous and profit-oriented policies of the government, namely the Umayyad regime. The methodology used in this research is descriptive and analytical in the form of content (discourse) analysis. The unit of analysis is the sentence, which is a tool of library research.

کلیدواژه ها:

Content analysis of argument ، Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) ، Imamate ، Usool al-Kafi (book) ، speech act ، John Searle.