The Application of Cognitive Dimension in Reading the Discourse of the 31st Nahj al-Balagha

Semiotics - Semantics, which is an evolved form of classical semiotics, provides an opportunity to study how meaning is produced, functioned, and received in a process system . Accordingly, the relations of signs, and the power of meanings are not enough to show the production of signs and meanings , also The conditions and nature of discourse construction are examined too. In this regard, to study the process of the cognitive dimension system of Nahj al-Balaghah and the strategies of inducing cognition in the cognitive cycle and the role of the discourse partner, letter 31 entitled- His will for Hassan- son of Ali, which he wrote to him in Harderin” - Famous for the will -was selected and examined by analytical-descriptive method. The results show that the speed and slowness of the persuasion process, strategies and tools to use it, including encouragement, warning and forbid in the letter, depends on the addressee and the existence of ethical beliefs in the archive of his beliefs reference belief. Therefore, because Imam Hassan (AS) is an addressee that has a common belief and reference belief with the speaker, cognitive variants in the cycle of cognitive process, are offered quickly. In these circumstances, In these circumstances, the existence of ethical belief precedes cognition and persuasion strategies, and the types of awareness that have the aspect of encouraging ethical action are used the most. Also, if there is a danger in the way of the addressee reaching the valuable object, pseudo-right and wrong.