Ph.D. Dissertation:

Comparison of the intellectual level of Selected Poems by Parvin Etesami and Phyllis Vitaly Based on Tulmin's Theory

Theory of argumentation is an interdisciplinary study which , using the logical deduction , aims to arrive at a particular conclusion . Logical deduction means that the claims either correct or incorrect are made on the basis of inductions . This procedure is used in humanities , civil debates , discourse , and dialogue and its chief intention is to contend the addressee and defend the beliefs and / or benefits of both sides . Debate is a reciprocal dialogue in which one side supports a special action , operation , practice , hypothesis , and / or theory and the other opponent side endeavors to overcome the other’s through offering a reason . Tuleeman‘s theory of argumentation that had been primarily supposed to be made in the court for sake of claims and replies was also extended to the linguistic areas of lecture and discourse analysis , and comparative studies . Parveen E’etesami and Philis Weetli as two Iranian and Afro – American protestor poetesses are among big poets of debate . Through debate , these versifiers have made their ethical claims and recommendations in form of personification and allegory . Present dissertation is written in order to study predominant style of argumentation in the debate verses of the afore said poets and to compare them as well . The debates example has been analyzed in three aspects a ) logics identification , b ) recognition of claims and their grounds , and c) certainty indicators . Toward logics identification ( rational stands ) , the following number of stands as a ) history and experience , b ) caution necessity and prevention from risk and threat , c ) carnal desire restraint , and d ) the ability have been used , those which are considered the main stances among the cases to be studied . On the other hand , the employed reasons here underlie claims and recommendations in terms of punctuality , gratitude , felicity , prudence against dangers , struggling the state and office corruption , pretence negation , fight with injustice , pathology of poverty , rationalism , familial traditions , mores of companionship , and so on . The current paper has been arranged in different chapters . Chapter one has been designed to the general features of the research . In chapter two , the analysis has been done on the theoretical foundations of the research , the pertinent themes to argument , their relevance to logic , types of argument and its structure , Aristotle , Rogers , and Tuleeman’s views on the argument and experiential method , and the examination of Tuleeman’s theory in this regard . The life , thought , and poetry of two above said poetesses have been mentioned in chapter three and chapter four has dealt with their poetic facts and the analysis of their poems and debates . Here , twelve and ten debates accordingly by Parveen and Weetli have been examined . In the end , the results of each discussion in each part have been given .

Keywords: poems , Parveen E’etesami , Philis Weetli , Tuleeman’s theory , level of thinking , comparison