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Speech Acts of Some Jordanian Idioms
Oday Mohammad Alshorafat
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2021.05.002
The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
The primary aim of the study at hand is to investigate Jordanian idioms in light of Speech Act Theory. More specifically, it attempts to highlight and explore the speech acts and the illocutionary acts used in Jordanian idioms based on Searle’s classification of speech acts. In order to achieve this goal, the researcher interviewed 20 Jordanian Arabic language native speakers and asked them to give a Jordanian idiom and a context in which it occurs. After analyzing the data, the study reveals that there are four speech acts of Jordanian idioms. They are expressives, directives, representatives, and commssives. It also reveals that Jordanian idiomatic expressions perform many pragmatic functions (illocutions). They are insulting, blaming, criticizing, scorning, asking, advising, asserting, and threatening.
pragmatics, Speech Act Theory, context, Jordanian idioms
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