A pragmatic Study of Implicit Expressive Speech Acts in Shakespearean Tragedy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ With Reference to Their Comprehension in Arabic

Daham Mohammad, Waffaa; Ali Sulaiman I. Al-Dulaimi, Dr.

	A pragmatic Study of Implicit Expressive Speech Acts in Shakespearean Tragedy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ With Reference to Their Comprehension in Arabic
Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities
Article 1, Volume 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 404-427
Authors
Waffaa Daham Mohammad; Dr. Ali Sulaiman I. Al-Dulaimi
Abstract
Abstract This paper is an attempt to investigate and analyze the speech acts of implicit expressives in Shakespearean tragedy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ from the pragmatic point of view with reference to their comprehension in Arabic taking into account that implicit expressives are context bound. The study shades light on the problems: whether speech act theory can be applied to literary texts. Translating English dramatic text involves many difficulties because of the non- existence of the one-to -one correspondence between English dramatic text and the Arabic one . The current study aims at confirming that speech act theory is applicable on the literary texts, setting some felicity conditions to determine whether the act is genuinely performed, indicating how implicit expressive speech acts are realized in Arabic and showing the effective and informative translation used. In order to achieve the aforementioned aims the following hypotheses are suggested: Speech act theory can be applied on the literary texts in the same way as those non-literary, implicit expressives are frequently used in both English and Arabic. There is no one- to - one correspondence between English and Arabic and the intention and the force of the source text can only be rendered if only the translator aware is of the basic characteristics and norms of the implicit expressive speech acts .

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