Speech Acts
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Indirect Speech Acts in Kurdish Poetry: The Case of Jegerkhin’s Poems
Sagvan Abdullrahman Taha, Sulaiman Hishyar Mohammed
This study delves into the phenomenon of indirect speech acts and their role in crafting literary language in poetic texts, where the poet employs them as tools to convey thoughts and intentions. The research aims to explore how poets utilize linguistic capabilities to create an engaging literary style through indirect acts. Titled “Indirect Speech Acts in Kurdish Poetry: The Case of Jegerkhin’s Poems,” the study adopts Austin and Searle’s theoretical models. Its significance lies in highlighting how poets often rely on indirect speech acts to shape an aesthetically pleasing mode of expression and to create vivid artistic imagery. These acts align with the poet’s emotions and feelings, encompassing expressions such as declarations, commands, joy, sadness, hope, and more. The research categorizes sentences into declarative, interrogative, and imperative types, analyzing each and identifying the nature of the indirect act within them. Alongside the introduction and conclusions, the study is divided into two parts: the first examines the concepts and types of speech acts, while the second focuses on the language of the poems, identifying and interpreting indirect speech acts within them.
Volume 12 · Issue 6 · December 2025Analysis of Body Language Based on the Theory of Speech Acts
Omed Samad Ahmad, Rizgar Ismail Kareem, Mohammed Osman Ali
Body language is one of the most important means of non-verbal communication between humans. Through physical movements, gestures, faces and body postures, we can convey their information and feelings effectively. This study entitled (Analysis of Body Language Based on the Theory of Speech Acts) has made a complete analysis of body language from the perspective of the theory of speech acts. According to the analytical description approach, the study mentions the relationship between body movements and linguistic acts based on Austin's principles, body language as an integral part of human communication plays an important role in communicating intentions, this is the essence of speech act theory, although speech act theory is primarily designed to analyze spoken language. However, it can also be used to analyze nonverbal communication. Body language can be interpreted and analysed as a complete verbal act because body language as an active nonverbal communication system, as verbal communication, creates and conveys meaning independently. Thus, body language can, as a complete system of verbal actions, perform illocutionary acts and subjunctive actions and carry the same purpose of the functions of speech acts: (imposing laws, requests, promises, expressions, decisions), because every body movement, a sender uses as a purpose and affects the recipient; therefore, that body language can be analysed as a complete system of speech acts.
Volume 12 · Issue 5 · October 2025The Employment of Speech Act Elements in the Experience of the Poet Al-Muhalhil ibn Rabiah
Ammar Hazim Mohammed Ali
The performative act or speech acts constitutes the vital aspect in the structure of argumentative and pragmatic discourse. Indeed, there are researchers who place it in the rank of a term or concept synonymous with pragmatic. It is the energy and the basic engine that works to transform speech into an act of accomplishment that can be achieved on the ground. It has levels that the philosopher Austin and John Searle worked on classifying. The organic relationship between speech or saying and its achievement is invested in the text or poetic discourse according to five categories: assertives, directives, commissitives, expressives, and declarations. This is what we will try to discover in the poetry of Al-Muhalhal bin Rabi’ah. The poet’s poetry was built on the basis of levels that arise from what the author’s purpose requires. The meaning of the accomplishment required to be achieved has references related to the pre-Islamic reality and the dialectical discourse that we can sense in specific types and topics such as elegy, satire, and pride. Each topic has its own strategies that work to influence the recipient. Every response has an extension in the text. There are phrases and sentences that have A request style that takes the elements of verbs as a functional role in passing messages through which orders or requests are directed that require the recipient to be convinced by them or to try to change behavior and show solidarity with the poet’s cause in his revolutionary taking and sympathy with the argument and evidence that legitimizes the killing or the act of excessive killing against the Jassas tribe, which constitutes the realistic dimension in the text and its discourse.
Volume 9 · Issue 5 · December 2022The Influence of the Pragmatism Philosophy on Linguistics
Hewa Ahmed Assaf, Yousif Sharif Saeed
Pragmatism, a philosophical approach that originally appeared in the USA, places its evaluation of the validity of ideas on concepts such as "action" and "benefit". The pioneers of this philosophy believe that the basis of human thought and knowledge should be traced back to the notion of benefit. Language, according to John Dewey, is a tool for representing thought and meaning. Accordingly, the language must be loaded with utilitarian ideas and be a tool for creating a practical and realistic effect. That is, pragmatism was concerned with the purpose of language use and its significance at the expense of its form. It is worth mentioning that some other branches in linguistics were born from pragmatism, such as pragmatics, which deals with language in use, semiotics, applied linguistics, behaviorism, speech act theory, and discourse analysis. All of these branches of linguistics are concerned with the actual and utilitarian aspects of language and investigate language in terms of usage and conditions of use. This paper is an attempt to highlight how these linguistic fields are affected by the philosophy of pragmatism. The research consists of two sections. In the first section, the broad outlines of the philosophy of pragmatism are examined, and in the second section, the effect of the pragmatism philosophy on these fields of linguistics is examined.
Volume 8 · Issue 2 · June 2021The Speech Acts in Nali and Salim’s Two Poems
Hersh Chato Hussein
This study is under the title of “The Speech Acts in Nali and Salim’s Two Poems”. It is an attempt to analyze these two poems in a pragmatic point of view, particularly in terms of speech acts. The significance of speech acts is not to recognize linguistic meaning of words in sentences and utterances, but it is according to the sender’s purpose in the context that they occur. Thus, the language of poetry as a way of using language, especially classical poetry, is not an ordinary language. Consequently, the paper hypothesizes that the speech acts have to be embodied in the poems accurately because there is supposed to be a hidden and invisible meaning in every verse behind its expression and form. The scope of the study is to examine the two poems, and it is benefited from their investigation that has been done in their anthology. In addition, whenever needed, the speech acts are identified in short because much has been mentioned about them in the scientific research institutions.