EXPRESSED AND IMPLIED LOCUTIONARY ACTS IN SHAW'S MAJOR BARBAR

Authors

  • Shaymaa Yaseen Thabit

Keywords:

Locutionary acts, Expressed , Implied, Shaw’s Major Barbara.

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

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Published

2023-02-24

Issue

Vol. 45 No. 98 (2022): human

Section

Articles for the Humanities

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