scholarly journals A Pragmatic Study of the Impact of Congregational Sermons of the Grand Ayatollah AL- Sistani on Iraqi Society (2014-2016)

لارك ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (38) ◽  
pp. 592-572
Author(s):  
Ahmed Hasan Fleih
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Clear Idea ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Pragmatic Study

Abstract           This study investigates the impact of  the congregational sermons of the Grand Ayatollah Al:Sistani on Iraqi society 2014-2016 , by using a pragmatic analysis. It aims to investigate how these sermons are influential and affective in the society reformation . In order to achieve this study, there are certain hypotheses that have been hypothesized  to get a clear  idea about the study  presented. One of these hypotheses is that congregational sermons have a great impact on societies in all aspects of life , particularly the Islamic societies .This study is  carried out by using Searle’s contributions to speech act theory  presented by felicity conditions (1969) and the classification of speech act types (1975).

scholarly journals Speech Acts of the Congregational Sermons of the Grand Ayatollah AL- Sistani (2014-2016)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (40) ◽  
pp. 589-604
Author(s):  
Ahmed Fleih Hassan ◽  
Ali M. Gharab Al-Mejdawy
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Clear Idea

          This study investigates the speech acts of  the congregational sermons of the Grand Ayatollah Al:Sistani  2014-2016 , by using a pragmatic analysis. It aims to investigate how these sermons are influential and affective in the society reformation . In order to achieve this study, there are certain hypotheses that have been hypothesized  to get a clear  idea about the study  presented. One of these hypotheses is that congregational sermons have a great impact on societies in all aspects of life , particularly the Islamic societies .This study is  carried out by using Searle’s contributions to speech act theory presented by felicity conditions (1969) and the classification of speech act types (1975).

scholarly journals Speech Acts of Request in O.Wilde’s The Happy Prince

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (38) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Hussain Hameed Mayuuf ◽  
Ahmed Mukheef Hussein ◽  
Rasha T. Awad
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Acts 2

Abstract         The theory of speech act contributed by Austin in 1962 has received much consideration in linguistic study. The main objective of this paper is to account for  the ways whereby speakers express various actions via language. Accordingly, the current study tries to find answers to the following questions: (1) what is speech act theory? (2) what are the main classifications of speech act theory? (3) what is speech act of request , why it is made, and how it is achieved? The current study aims at: (1) presenting an illustration of speech acts (2) exploring the main classifications of speech acts (3) investigating the essence of speech act of request , the ways whereby it is achieved, and the reasons behind that. The study hypothesizes that (1) speech act denotes the verbal behaviour or the action which is done by the utterance or sentence uttered by a speaker in a certain occasion (2) Austin classifies speech acts into performative and constativeExpositions, whereas Searle states that there are three main acts performed in speech act including ;utterance act , propositional act and illocutionary act (3) speech act of request is an act asked by the speaker and accomplished by the hearer for the benefit of the speaker . There are three basic types of sentences by which speech act of request is made ; declaratives , imperatives, interrogatives. To achieve politeness interrogative sentences are the most recurrent ones so as to mitigate the impact of the action.         The Procedures followed are: (1) presenting a theoretical background of speech acts. (2) highlighting the primary classifications of speech acts (3) elucidating speech act of request, the ways by which it is fulfilled and the grounds that explicate its use. The study is limited to speech act of request in the short story "The Happy Prince " written by Oscar Wilde. Section one exhibits the problem of the study exposing its aims, hypotheses, procedures and limits. Section two represents a theoretical framework including Austin’s Classification of speech acts, the speech act of request, schemes of requesting, sentence kinds denoting request. Section three depicts the data and its analysis. The study ends with a section for its conclusions.

scholarly journals Comparing the Meaning Potential in Shakespeare and Manto through Speech Acts: A Discourse Pragmatic Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-600
Author(s):  
Tazanfal Tehseem ◽  
Muazzma Batool ◽  
Aqsa Arshad ◽  
Zohaib Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
John Searle ◽  
Meaning Potential ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
Pragmatic Study

This paper attempts to explain the application of speech act theory (John Searle, 1976) on the soliloquies expressed by Hamlet and Keshulal Singh. The descriptive focus of this study is to draw attention to the felicity conditions whether they are being fulfilled by the speakers while making an utterance or not. Content analysis based on speech act theory is used for this paper. It has been pointed out that declaratives are less while directives are more applicable on these soliloquies, with the help of analysis. Hamlet and Keshulal’s inner self is being depicted through their speeches and it is analyzed that they are so much upset and are in the situation of to be or not to be that they do not know what should be their strategies, in taking their revenge. In actuality, they are trying to extinguish the storm which is bursting inside them through their soliloquies but by comparing the inner devastation of both characters. It is highlighted that Hamlet’s soliloquies are more self-explanatory than that of Keshulal because Hamlet makes vows, questions, deplores, and challenges the circumstances more than the Keshulal.

Speech Act Theory and Communication Modeling

2011 ◽  
pp. 577-583
Author(s):  
Lewis Hassell
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Computer Security ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
General Will ◽  
Simple Computer ◽  
The Impact

Since the early 1980s there has been an interest in linguistics in general and speech act theory in particular in CSCW, HCI, MIS, and IS modeling in general. The reason for this is simple—computer and information scientists discovered that most work is group work and most group work occurs via language. Winograd and Flores (1986) popularized the use of speech act theory, especially the Searlian variety, for modeling electronic communication and collaboration. However, what one finds if one looks closely is that we have taken the easy road when dealing with language. There are a large variety of speech acts that we ignore when analyzing language, particularly when using speech act theory. Why this is so, the impact on tool-creation, and possible remediation of this problem will be discussed. The importance for such areas as e-collaboration, as well as text mining, computer security, and computing in general will be emphasized.

‘Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool’: Folie à Deux in Shakespeare’s Love Duets

2019 ◽  
pp. 52-76
Author(s):  
Lawrence Manley
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Inhibiting Factors ◽  
Dsm V ◽  
Folie À Deux ◽  
Dsm Iv ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shared Psychotic Disorder ◽  
Folie A Deux

Of the myriad versions of face-to-faceness in Shakespeare, an elementary case is what this paper calls the “love duet.” Lawrence Manley’s contribution pursues a formal and dramaturgical route into the broader problem of Shakespeare’s ways of depicting and understanding couples by focusing on a specific instance of the love duet in the earlier work of Shakespeare. The “unchaperoned duet” is a scene or portion of a scene in which the absence of third parties is a theatrical pre-condition and a token for the absence of inhibitions to erotic face-to-face encounter. The paper also considers the impact of inhibiting factors (such as separation, absence, the presence of other characters, impinging circumstance, and erotic betrayal) on the duet. Examples are set against both early modern contexts (ancient literature, Renaissance theories of sympathy, and the development of musical duets) and modern theories, including Beckerman’s taxonomy of duets types, J. L Austin’s speech-act theory, and the clinical diagnosis of “Shared Psychotic Disorder (folie à deux)”(DSM-IV) or “delusional symptoms in partner of individual with delusional disorder” (DSM-V).

scholarly journals A Pragmatic Analysis of Humor Words in English Advertisements

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Xiaqing Li
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Visual Performance ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Advertising Effect ◽  
Conversational Implicatures ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Advertising Language ◽  
Research Author

<p>As an independent discipline, pragmatics was through out thirty years’ development. It is also a young discipline. As a medium emerging commonly in advertising language art, humor has attracted wide attention of many producers. Previous scholars analyzed more from the perspective of grammar, vocabulary, rhetoric, etc. But the research of advertising language humor is lacking from the aspects of pragmatic rules. Our collection of data is quite open. Any advertisement that can be transcribed in to written form is our interest. They are excerpted from magazines, advertisement, collecting books, newspapers, TV and radio commercials. As we only focus on language humor, situational humor produced by visual performance is not involved this thesis. The advertising language art of humor has been widely paid attention. Based on the existing theories of humor research, author of this paper used many kinds of pragmatic theories to analyze English advertising humor language, and including reference, deixis, anaphora, presupposition, speech act theory, the cooperative principle, conversational implicatures, and the politeness principle. It can not only provide reference for the research of this field for later scholars, but also provide theoretical guidance for the AD makers of using humor language to produce a good advertising effect.</p>

scholarly journals A Pragmatic Analysis of Margaret Ogola’s the River and the Source and I Swear by Apollo

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. p88
Author(s):  
Nicholas Onyango Oloo ◽  
Prof. Francis OwinoRew ◽  
Dr. Robert Onyango Ochieng’
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Conversational Turns

This paper aims at interrogating the significance of pragmatics in analyzing Margaret Ogola’s two novels; The River and the Source (1994) and I swear by Apollo (2002). The researcher analyses the characters’ conversational turns in the novels using Austin (1962) and Searle 1969 Speech Act Theory. The study employs an analytical research design using a mixed method data analysis. The findings indicate that every utterance used by a character performs three simultaneous acts namely; a locutionary, an illocutionary and perlocutionary. In addition, the data shows that every utterance produced by a character in the novels could be categorized under one of the five major categories speech acts proposed by Searle (1969); representatives, expressive, directives, commisives or declarations. The study found that the representatives are the most dominant in both novels while declarations the least. The study also reveals that each major speech act contains a wide range of sub acts or illocutionary forces which are distinguished based on their felicity conditions. The study therefore proposes that pragmatic analysis be adopted as an effective tool in the analysis of the characters’ verbal interactions in novels. In addition, further research could be conducted on pragmatic analysis of novels by other writers.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Names and Naming in Igarra (Etuno)

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
OREMEYI ABIOLA SANNI ◽  
GIDEON ABIOYE OYEDEJI ◽  
MARY JUMMAI KWASU
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Language Survival ◽  
Speech Act Analysis ◽  
Yoruba Language ◽  
The Invisible

The study examines the Pragmatic meanings of names and naming in Igarra (Etuno). Data gathered from Igarra (Etuno) names have been purposely selected for Speech Act analysis because of their assertive, penetrating and incisive messages. Specifically, the Speech Act theory which consists of locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts was applied in the data analysis. The ‘invisible meaning’ of the selected names were analysed using the pragmatic and linguistic tools of context and speech acts. It has been observed that Igarra people previously preferred names sourced from other languages especially Yoruba language but there have been shifts in attitude because of the realization that Igarra (Etuno) names are as meaningful as names from other climes. Another significant reason is the fact that Igarra people have now recognized the importance of preserving Etuno language. The study investigated the pragmatic implications of the names by exploring the reasons and circumstances of the selected names. The names were purposively selected from families and friends. For ease of analysis, the data were grouped according to different circumstances surrounding the names. The findings from this study showed that Igarra names do not only identify a person but also communicate so much about the circumstances surrounding the person’s birth. The study concludes that names perform several speech acts like informing, requesting, questioning or expressing gratitude which are reflective of the emotional link or expectations of the giver of the name. The study recommends that names and naming should indeed have cultural inkling and should reflect the situational nuances about their birth. This will aid language survival.

scholarly journals Soorte vrae in 1 Korintiërs 7–8 en 10:1–11:1

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas H. Snyman
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
Rhetorical Question ◽  
Systematic Examination ◽  
Eating Meat ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Scientific Framework

1 Korintiërs 7–8 en 10:1–11:1 is deel van Paulus se antwoord op ’n brief wat hy van die Korintiërs ontvang het (7:1). Die twee gedeeltes handel oor die huwelik en afgodery, meer spesifiek die eet van vleis in heidense tempels. In sy antwoord gebruik hy ’n aantal vrae wat in kommentare bloot as retoriese vrae beskryf word. Die doel van hierdie artikel is om hierdie vrae fyner te onderskei aan die hand van ’n model wat uit die taalhandelingsteorie ontwikkel is. Die model word kortliks opgesom, gevolg deur ’n sistematiese ondersoek van al die vrae in hierdie twee gedeeltes. Die gevolgtrekking is dat die noemer ‘retoriese vraag’ ’n oorvereenvoudiging is, wat nie reg laat geskied aan die wyse waarop Paulus verskillende soorte vrae gebruik om die impak van sy antwoord aan die Korintiërs te verhoog nie. Deur die vrae te onderskei en binne ’n wetenskaplike raamwerk te beskryf, is ook ’n poging om ’n bydrae tot die vertaling en eksegese van die betrokke gedeeltes te lewer.1 Corinthians 7–8 and 10:1–11:1 form part of Paul’s response to a letter from the Corinthians, refered to in 7:1. These two sections deal with matters on marriage and idolatry, specifically that of eating meat in pagan temples. In Paul’s response he uses a number of questions, which all commentaries simply describe as rhetorical questions. The purpose of this article is to distinguish these questions more clearly on the basis of a model, developed from speech act theory. The model is briefly summarised, followed by a systematic examination of all the questions in these two sections. The conclusion is that the denominator ‘rhetorical question’ is an oversimplification that does not do justice to the way in which Paul uses various types of questions to enhance the impact of his response to the Corinthians. By distinguishing and describing these questions within a scientific framework, an attempt was also made to contribute to the translation and exegesis of the passages involved.

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