Reflocutionary Speech/Non-speech Acts

Document Type : Research in linguistic and literary studies

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Department of English, Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages), Luxor University

Abstract

This paper is extracted from the dissertation “Reflocutionary (Non)speech Acts in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Salah Abd El-Sabour’s Ma’sat Al-Hallaj (The Tragedy of Al-Hallaj): A Cognitive Pragmatic Study”. The paper aims at investigating a fourth dimension to Austin’s classification of speech acts into locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts; that is reflocutionary acts. It tackles this act from a cognitive pragmatic paper, in order to manifest the psychological and mental processes needed to carry out such an act appropriately. Moreover, this paper applies reflocutionary both speech and non-speech acts to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman which is rich of psychological and cognitive aspects among its characters, that makes it applicable to reflocutionary acts. The paper highlights important concepts to build the base of the paper. Then, it attempts to apply reflocutionary (non)speech acts to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The conclusion includes the findings of the thesis, and presents suggestions for further studies.

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