Abstract

Arabic and English discourses are structurally well-organized in a way or another. Such text-organization is purposeful rather than arbitrary. The present study is an attempt to show how tHE Arabic sermon of Imam Ali Bin Al-Hussein Al-Sajjad (P.B.U.H) and the English sermon of Mark Antony in Shakespear’s “Julius Caeser” are argumentatively structured. Filling this gap is the problem of the present study.

This paper aims to study how much the argumentative superstructure is universal within a limited scope beside showing the way in which ideas are expressed and speech is organized in both of these two quite ideologically-identical sermons.

Based on the findings, its obvious that the components of the model may be explicit or implicit. In other words, the argumentative superstructure is applicable into the two sermons but with a slight difference in terms of explicitness and implicitness, in that, all of the model components are explicit in Imam Al-Sajjad’s sermon (P.B.U.H) and only two of them (solution and evaluation) are implicitly occurred.