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Humour is a common strategy used in argumentative discussion. The ideal model of analysing a critical discussion (argumentation) is the pragma dialectical approach. The notion of dialectic, also dialectics, points out a discourse in which two participants are taking turns; the proponent who makes a move and the respondent who makes another move responding to a prior one (Walton: 2006: 41). Argumentation is a term that refers to a verbal, social, and rational move needed to convince others of a standpoint by putting forward utterances for the sake of justifying or rejecting the opposing utterances. (Eemeren and Houtlosser, 2000:1). The current study aims at (1) sketching a pragmatic structure of humour in terms of argumentation by the means of applying a pragma dialectical mothed. Of analysis, (2) identifying the highly used illocutionary acts in setting a contradictory argumentation; (3) Pinpointing the type of presupposition that is highly used in a humourous argumentation, and (4) exploring the humorous strategy that is the most commonly used in this term. To achieve the aforementioned objectives, the study hypothesises the following, (1) the pragmatic structure of humour as far as argumentation is concerned, is drawn by the means of employing illocutionary acts, as well as presupposition, (2) Expositives are the most frequent illocutionary act used in argumentative discourse, (3) factive presupposition is the highly used type in the sense of argumentation and (4) satire is the most common strategy of humour in a critical/argumentative discourse. Finally, the study has concluded the following remarks: (1) It is proved that humour can be successfully employed for the purpose of rejecting or showing disagreement and avoiding going deep in a pointless discussion; (2) The study explicates that the expositive acts of informing, reporting, and disclaiming are frequently used in argumentative discourse in opposition to exercitive acts; (3) Explains that the antagonist tends to make a factive presupposition in order to prove the truth of his utterance, and (4) the study seeks its validation in terms of the frequencies and percentages that proves satire to be the most common type of humour used in argumentative discourse.
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