A Pragmatic Study of Oaths in Arabic Ceremonies

Saba K. Hassan; Faris Kadhim Al-Atabi

doi:10.31185/eduj.Vol48.Iss3.3106

Authors

Saba K. Hassan Wasit University, College of Education for Human Science/English Dept.
Asst.Prof. Faris Kadhim Al-Atabi Wasit University / college of Education for Humanities

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31185/eduj.Vol48.Iss3.3106

Keywords:

: Oath, Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Performative acts, Presuppositions

Abstract

Language is viewed as a kind of communication that includes greeting, requesting, threatening, demanding, thanking, swearing, and so on. Oath is a fundamental foundation of the language that individuals regularly use. Oath is considered a linguistic phenomenon and exists in most languages for the same purpose in various structures. The current study intends to investigate the oaths and how they are constructed to deliver the message and discover the pragmatic features of the chosen oaths relating the performative speech actions and presuppositions. The study used a mixed research technique, both qualitative and quantitative, to explore and characterize five English oaths. It has been determined that English oaths involve explicit and implicit performative speech acts represented by the verbs "swear and pledge" and the future tense structure. Furthermore, they are found to meet Searle's taxonomy of speech actions, with two sorts of presuppositions, existential and lexical.

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