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The Semantics, Pragmatics and Translation of Speech Acts | ||
| journal of the college of basic education | ||
| Article 1, Volume 10, Issue 50, 2007, Pages 0-0 | ||
| Author | ||
| Kadhim M. Sultan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| IntroductionApparently , both semantics and pragmatics appear to deal with the question of meaning but differ in the way they consider the type of meaning. On the one hand , semantics is often employed to account for the truth – condition of an utterance in the abstraction from the context in which this utterance occurs , as it plays an important role in determining the truth – conditional meaning on basis of the formal elements constituting this utterance ( Blakemore , 1987 : 11 ).That is , semantics is concerned with ‘‘ what does x mean’’ as Leech (1983:6) puts it . On the other hand , pragmatics is concerned with those aspects of meaning attributed to a user of language , or as Leech(ibid.) terms it , ‘‘ what did you mean by x ’’. Speech acts are considered as a kind of pragmatic meaning . They characterize utterances in terms of what they do- their illocution – rather than what they literally say – their locution . Speech act theory does not study the structure of language but its function , the structure being only the vehicle to express the function (meaning) . This paper aims to give a thorough and comprehensive picture of the semantics and pragmatics of speech acts and their realizations in English and Arabic . The paper also aims to look into some problems encountered by translation Arab students in English / Arabic translation . | ||
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