EXPRESSED AND IMPLIED LOCUTIONARY ACTS IN SHAW'S MAJOR BARBAR
Main Article Content
Abstract
The present paper investigates form and function of Searle's (1979) Speech Act theory in literary analysis. It reviews the way language can be an action in literary discourse. The paper accounts for illocutionary performative speech acts in Shaw's play Major Barbara based on selected sample texts. Types of illocutionary acts with their expressed or implied acts are accounted for with their correlation with felicity conditions. The paper draws on the understanding of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts in Major Barbara to be analysed. The data is a representative one
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.