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Abstract
Since the graphic images of an analogy, metaphor, metaphor, and metaphor, seek to influence the recipient and enable meaning in his mind, it can be said that they are of deliberative dimensions. This research has investigated the maqamat of al-Zamakhshari with a descriptive-analytical method, in order to reveal the features of deliberation, represented by the means of harmony in the science of rhetoric through the process of thinking and interpretation. In other words, the research deals with the Arab linguistic heritage and attempts to relate it to the data of Western theory in accordance with the concept of text's syntax in proportion to it with the maqamat of Zamakhshari. What is noticed in these maqamas is that textual coherence is clearly evidenced. Al-Zamakhshari has employed the means of harmony well, weaving its maqamat coherently, and the text of the text was realized with the emergence of these means. In the analysis of the maqamat, the importance of the recipient’s role in analyzing the text and deciphering its elements was highlighted by his perception of the language of the text and its context. The study demonstrated the close relationship between Arab heritage and the text's syntax, and this is what we have seen from the contribution of the science of rhetoric after it, one of the means of text harmony.

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Pragmatics is a major branch of linguistics that deals with the speaker’s implied meanings in an utterance. In fact, the addressee can recognize and interpret these meanings using register. One of the main concepts in pragmatics is presupposition which refers to the shared background between the speaker and the addressee in a conversation. In other words, the speaker communicates with the addressee based on what is already assumed, and these assumptions can be decoded with the help of the register. George Yule divides presupposition into six types, namely, existential, factive, lexical, structural, non-factive, and counter-factual. Comedy plays are closely related to the realities of the society due to their satirical criticism of the dominant order and social issues. In his comedy play Mismar Juha, Ali Ahmad Bakthir uses the character of Juha as well as verbal humor to unveil the problems of the Arab society and encourage people to stand against the oppression of English colonialism. The present study which follows a descriptive-analytical method Based on linguistic pragmatics, seeks to explain different kinds of presupposition and their role in creating verbal humor in Mismar Juha. The findings suggest that the author makes use of all the six types of presupposition. He utilizes different techniques including violation of speaker’s presupposition, satirical use of presupposition, and conversion of one type of presupposition into another in order to create verbal humor and criticize the social conditions. Existential presupposition is the most frequent type in this play whereas counter-factual presupposition is the least frequent type.