Defective Speech Act Translation and Linguistic Analysis of al-ʾAʿshā’s Dālīya and Intention | ||
| مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية | ||
| Volume 27, Issue 1, June 2022, Pages 1131-1160 PDF (806.05 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/shak.2022.282651 | ||
| Author | ||
| Dr.Lubna Mohammed al-Shanquitiy | ||
| , Assistant Professor of Linguistic, King Abdulaziz University, Department of General Courses, College of Art and Humanities, Jeddah | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper translates and explores the language of a classical text composed by the pre-Islamic poet Maymūn ibn Qays ibn Jandal al-ʾAʿshā (d. 7/629) when he was about to travel to the Prophet to praise him, to perform a transfer of faithfulness to him, and to convert to Islam. From a modern linguistic perspective, the paper explains how this text is an "unhappy/infelicity/void speech act” and "defective" by the linguist John Searle's terminology. It describes how the text is a defective speech act in which the poet fails the condition of completing the ritual performance of the poem before the addressee/the Prophet. It explains how the poem is void/defective due to the circumstance here not being in order and because the act is not performed. Even more critically, the addresser/poet composed the poem with a purpose different from his intention, which is recognizable from the language of the poetry and the anecdote surrounding the poem. | ||
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