A Study of Speech Acts Used in Baby Songs
Amal Sabah Ahmed
The General Directorate of Education in Kirkuk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.8.4.9
Keywords: pragmatics, speech act theory, macro speech acts, auxiliary speech acts and baby songs
Abstract
Speech act theory is one the most important theories in linguistics in general and pragmatics in particular. The first part of the research is concerned with the theoretical background of speech acts while the second part is concerned with data analysis and conclusions then the references used in this research.
The current study deals with the theory of speech acts that has been proposed by Austin and developed by Searle. The study focuses on the use of speech acts through baby songs. It is an Analysis of macro and auxiliary speech acts which is presented by van djik.In this study, six famous baby songs are utilized to be the data of analysis and finally Grice maxims are tackled in this study.
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