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The speech delivered by Iran Islamic Consultative Assembly Members is one of the most effective means they employ to get the MP’s to approve or reject the proposals made in the parliament. One way to convince the audience in a discursive process is to resort to argumentation. If argumentation, as a key point in the rhetoric to achieve the highest degree of persuasion, deviates from the path of reasoning, recourse will be made to fallacy. This study examined persuasive topoi in the for and against speeches delivered during parliamentary proposal review and vote of confidence sessions for the proposed cabinet of Iran twelfth government. To this end, instances of robust arguments replaced by fallacies were identified by means of rhetorical sophistications. The findings show that although the use of such devices as magnifying, minimizing, highlighting, and marginalizing may lead to the initial and immediate persuasion of the audience, this would not guarantee the eligibility of the ministers who win parliament's approval during the vote of confidence process.

Subh al-Asha, written by Ahmad al-Qalqashandi 9 century (H.), elaborating official letter writing styles in Mamluk period is a valuable source for historical politeness studies. Based on Leech's politeness maxims and Beeman's approach to politeness, this paper tries to unravel the politeness strategies in official letters of the Mamluks, which depend heavily on power relations. The results show that strategies adopted in these letters are in line with Beeman's "self-lowering" and "other-raising" elements. They also confirm Leech's maxim 3 and 4, out of his six maxims, whereby individuals do their best to praise the other party during the communication. Thus, strategies applied in these letters include "exclusion," "raising the addressee," and "praising the addressee." Using a religious discourse, whose lack would be offensive, is another feature of Mamluk official letters. Finally, social discourse was also adopted in these letters through which the writer acquired his dependent / independent identity.

Fundamentalist discourse was divided into various sub-discourses in parliamentary elections in 1390. United Front of Fundamentalism and the Stability Front of the Islamic Revolution were the most important sub-discourses of the 1390 elections. The purpose of the present research is to study and analyze the sub-discourse of Fundamentalist base on Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985) Discourse Theory and Fairclough’s (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis. The results showed that the United Front of Fundamentalism emphasizing on central signifier “velayt-e-faghih” and the floating signifiers such as “justice”، “spirituality”، “service”، “islam”، “economic development”، “stability” “spiritual and material development” made an attempt to hegemonize their own discourse through the deconstruction and redefinition of the opponent signifiers. In contrast، the Stability Front of the Islamic Revolution representing their articulation around central signifier “velayt” and different floating signifiers like “spirituality”، justice، “values”، “service”، “stability “.