Yousif Saeed; Hiwa Assaf
Abstract
Generally speaking, people use language to improve their lives and for their own interests. By virtue of language use, a speaker tends to have a practical effect on the interlocutor ...
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Generally speaking, people use language to improve their lives and for their own interests. By virtue of language use, a speaker tends to have a practical effect on the interlocutor in reality. This effect is the perlocutionary act, which is generated by different speech acts. One of the primary pragmatic purposes of language use is to persuade the interlocutor and control his thoughts and behaviors. In order to do so, the speaker uses a set of different mechanisms and language games to convince the other person. This study focuses on the role of the speech acts in persuasion. It consists of two main sections. The first section discusses the pragmatics of language, the theory of speech acts and the purpose of actions. The second section examines the role of different verbal actions in persuading the addressee, in particular, the role and mechanism of several different speech acts in persuading the other person is discussed in the context of persuading the addressee.
