Sedigheh Sheikhzadeh Jooshani; fatemeh Mirshekarpor
Abstract
Human beings often in confronting with unfamiliar and novel events and situations, attempt to make sence them by comparisons between a present event or situation and a past one. Makesencing a current event or situation by analogizing is a mechanism or cognitive shortcut that cognitive psychology refers ...
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Human beings often in confronting with unfamiliar and novel events and situations, attempt to make sence them by comparisons between a present event or situation and a past one. Makesencing a current event or situation by analogizing is a mechanism or cognitive shortcut that cognitive psychology refers to it as Analogical Reasoning (AR). The present study, emphasizing the foreign policy event of Iran'uclear negotiations and agreements - the P5+1(2013-2015), aims to show how some of political personalities and online media users have understood this event by using historical analogies. The study has used directed qualitative content analysis method for collecting and analyzing data. The findings show that the events of The Resolution 598, The Algies Accords 1981, The nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, The Turkmenchay treaty, The Sa'adabad treaty, The Golestaan treaty, The Paris treaty, Amir Kabir, Arash Kamangir, The Huddaybbiah Peace and The Imam Hassan Peace, are the historical analogies that analogizers invoked them in order to making sense the current event of Iran's nuclear negotiations and agreements - the P5+1 (2013-2015). The findings show that of the total of 11 historical analogies used by the analogizers, the analogy of Resolution 598 and the Hudaybbiah Peace, equally with the frequency of 22%, have been the most Popular analogies. The results show there have been an analogical battle between proponents and opponents of Iran's nuclear negotiations and agreements-the the P5+1(2013-2015), that Islamism-Iranism political rhetoric is the device of this battle.
