the التحليل التداولي للحوار القرآني في ضوء نظرية الأفعال الكلاميةعند أوستين وسيرل: إطار عملي تكاملي
Pragmatic Analysis of Quranic Dialogue in Light of Austin’s and Searle’s Speech Act Theory: An Integrated Practical Framework
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Quranic Dialogue, Pragmatic, Analysis, Speech Act Theory, Austin, SearlAbstract
This study analyses Quranic dialogue through pragmatic analysis using speech act theory as developed by Austin and Searle. This theory contributes to the analysis of pragmatic elements by facilitating the classification of speech acts and the evaluation of their felicity conditions, particularly in determining the success and failure of performative utterances in context. The analysis is applied to selected dialogues involving Prophet Moses in the Quran. This effort is directed towards applying an integrated pragmatic framework for the analysis of Quranic dialogue, with particular attention to methodological rigor and the validity of interpretive outcomes. The research problem stems from the observation that many pragmatic studies on Quranic dialogues remain largely theoretical, offering limited application of speech act theory to selected textual data. Even when applied, such studies often restrict their analysis to the classification of speech acts, without presenting a systematic procedural model that accounts for contextual dimensions, communicative functions, and the perlocutionary and felicity conditions of utterances. This limitation has led to critiques that existing pragmatic analyses of Quranic dialogue tend to be superficial and insufficient for producing a comprehensive interpretive reading of Quranic verses. This study concludes that applying the proposed pragmatic framework enables an effective and systematic analysis of the pragmatic structure of Quranic dialogue. Searle’s classifications of speech acts facilitate the identification of overlapping discourse functions, including directives, representatives, expressives, commissives, and declaratives, while Austin’s felicity conditions evaluate success and failure of utterances in context.
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