THE GHOST IN HIS CONTEXT :A SPEECH – ACT APPROACH TO SHAKESPEAR'S

Abdul Karim Al-sheikh, Samir

	THE GHOST IN HIS CONTEXT :A SPEECH – ACT APPROACH TO SHAKESPEAR'S " HAMLET "
Misan Journal of Acodemic Studies
Article 1, Volume 8, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16-23
Author
Samir abdul karim al-sheikh
Abstract
ABSTRACT Literary texts are dealt with variously within various theoretical backgrounds . The syntactic and semantic theories hinge on the study of verbal works of art as syntactic and semantic variations . The modern insights look into texts to explore their linguistic and aesthetic values ( see Mukarovsky, 1970 ; Halliday , 1970 ). The literary texts , to these theories , are of interrelated syntactic – semantic options . The linguists fundamentally concentrate on the sentence as the most significant unit of language . Therefore , these theories are rarely concerned with the communicative value of literary texts . The literary texts ; however , are not merely illustrations of the linguistic system .They are not merely sets of grammatical patterns . Rather , they are pieces of human experience, of communication . They reflect the verisimilitude of human life . In other words , the complexity of human nature and patterns of man are encoded into these artifacts as types of verbal communication . In this sense , the literary text is " a discourse " of one kind or another . This paper proceeds on the hypothesis that the literary text is deeply oriented into the communicative practices of the participants. The participants interact in the context . The speech acts of the characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet will be approached in terms of the Speech – Act Theory . The scope of the paper will be limited to Act I , Scene I of the Shakespearean tragedy .

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THE GHOST IN HIS CONTEXT :A SPEECH – ACT APPROACH TO SHAKESPEAR'S " HAMLET "