Speech acts in the poetry of Al-Rasafi Al-Balansi

Abstract

Pragmatics is a method for studying literary texts, and one of its procedures is speech acts. We chose to apply these procedures to a model of Andalusian poetry, namely Al-Rasafi Al-Balansi, following Searle’s divisions in that to show the characteristics of these acts that were employed for direct and indirect meanings. Speech acts were related to the context of the poem and the circumstance of its recitation. Pragmatics was our tool for reaching the poet’s care for his words and sentences and his careful selection. Our poet rose above profiting from poetry, so his poetry was sincere, warm, and far from complexity and ambiguity - which is what most Andalusian poets were characterized by. As long as we are talking about Al-Rasafi Al-Balansi, it is worth mentioning that his collection of poems has been corrected more than once. This indicates the critics’ care for Al-Rasafi first, and that much of Andalusian poetry is still within the walls of libraries and has not yet been investigated and published. What drew attention, despite the prevalence of pragmatics since the beginning of the last century, is that our poet and many Andalusian poets have not studied their poetry according to this theory, despite what is known about it in terms of narrowing the distance between the text and the recipient. However, that did not Critics are drawn to study only a small number, such as Abu Al-Khasal and Abu Al-Ishaq Al-Ilbiri, so we have embarked on research in this area, hoping for success and guidance