The Analysis of the Interpersonal and Declaratory Acts of the Humorous UtterancesInBernard Shaw's Comedy You Never Can TellA Pragmatic Study

Musa Salman, Sahira; Faisal Noori, A; Baida,

	The Analysis of the Interpersonal and Declaratory Acts of the Humorous UtterancesInBernard Shaw's Comedy You Never Can TellA Pragmatic Study
Al-Adab Journal
Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 86, 2018, Pages 1-29
Authors
Sahira Musa Salman; a Faisal Noori;
Abstract
It is believed that there are certain factors which affect the proficiency in understanding the message from the stand point of the receiver and the sender. These include the words used (including the text and the different meanings transmitted through it). The second factor is the unstated words in which it does not matter what you say but how you say it.Four parts constitute this paper. The first part briefly describes the types of Speech Acts according to the authors presenting them. These are followed by a discussion of the interpersonal and Declaratory Acts. Third, these special types are sought and analysed in Bernard Shaw's You Never Can Tell with special attention devoted to the influence of the type of speech Act on the humorous utterances.The adopted model of analysis is that of Allan's (1986) which is seen as the most comprehensive model with its detailed classification of Speech Acts.The analysis reveals that show develops his characters by assigning them distinctive styles of speaking and consequently making them adopt a certain attitude towards language.To some degree, all comic dramatists deal with different characters or "types" that have the same attributes of appearance, behaviour, and language. This justifies the parallel and almost equal rates found in both the Interpersonal and Declaratory Acts among Shaw's characters in the comedy under investigation.

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