TThe Analysis of Sultan Amir Masoud’s letter to Kharazmshah Altontash from The History of Beyhaqi based on speech act theory of John Rogers Searle.

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Almustafa International University

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Payame Noor University of Mashhad

3 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

10.29252/kavosh.2020.1742

Abstract

Literature texts have numerous meaning layers and pragmatic interpretations. The reader must extract the intent of the writer or narrator from the text. Human minds use different processes consciously and unconsciously to achieve this goal. The specialists of multiple fields in humanities, such as linguistics and its subsets have had a high regard for how to extract meanings and the hidden intent in a text from the past. The notion of speech act is one of the solutions for understanding the hidden meanings of a text. The history of Beyhaqi is one of the ancient texts which is considered as one of the best literary texts because of its style that indicates the fluency and excellent ability of its writer, Beyhaqi. This research has analyzed “Sultan Amir Masoud’s letter to kharazmshah Altontash” from the history of Beyhaqi based on speech act theory. This notion is constantly used in applied semantics and is located within discourse analysis domain. In this letter, the writer has used more directive acts compared with fewer expressive acts that indicates various meanings.

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