A Pragmatic Study of Speech acts in describing the Orphans’ Rights in English and Arabic Religious Discourse
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Speech Acts, Orphans’ Rights, Quran, Bible, Pragmatic analysisAbstract
Language is a medium of socialization. It is agreed upon that it is used differently in different situations. The language which is used in the everyday currency is regarded different at all levels of linguistics from that which is used in public occasions. Religion is one of the social and cultural values that language is used in accordance with. Religious texts are considered by various religions as sacred texts and as authoritative sources of guidance and wisdom. The study aims to tackle the most frequent types of speech acts in religious discourse and to find out the similarities and differences between English and Arabic. Therefore, a pragmatic analysis has been carried out to the selected verses in the Holy Bible and the Glorious Quran within the classification that put by Bach and Harnish (1979). In this study, forty samples are selected randomly from the Holy Bible and the Glorious Quran. However, they are restricted to verses that describe the Orphans’ Rights. The findings have shown that the type of speech acts that is most frequently used in religious discourse is the same in English and Arabic. Moreover, orders and prohibitive are frequently used in religious discourse for the same reason which is emphasizing the importance of preserving the orphan’s rights in the society.
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