TITLE:
The Speech Act Theory in English and Arabic
AUTHORS:
Fareed Hameed Al-Hindawi, Hameed Hasoon Al-Masu’di, Ramia Fua’d Mirza
KEYWORDS:
Austin; Searle; As-Sakkaki; Al-Jurjani; Constatives and Performatives According to Najaf School of Jurisprudents
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics,
Vol.4 No.1,
February
14,
2014
ABSTRACT: This paper is mainly concerned with proving that it is
not Wittgenstein, the German philosopher, who actually seeded the main gist of
the Speech Act Theory; there are others who preceded him (and all those who
followed him, the first of whom is Austin) in doing so: Arab scholars. Accordingly,
this work starts by reviewing the most basic ideas of the original theory
proposed by Austin and developed by Searle. The basic ideas presented by the
Arabic theory are presented in the second section, and then a contrast between
the two is made.