Performative Verbs by Austin and Searle

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
124-141

Abstract

This research entitled (Verbal Actions of Austin and Searle), is a step in the contemporary direction. Understanding the language is difficult for us if we do not understand the discourse, and the discourse cannot be understood if there is no communication. Possibility is an inferential cognitive system that seeks to identify the speaker's objectives established through knowledge The discursive strategy of the text, and the deliberative nature of speech acts allowed for the analysis of discourse, as it looked at speech as a verbal act indicating the intention of the speaker and aims these actions to accomplish things with words or positions, that is, by influencing the addressee by inducing him to act, leave, deny or confirm ... etc.

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Nabil Al-Yamor, T., تمارة, Tahseen Al- Chalabi, A., & آن. (2025). Performative Verbs by Austin and Searle. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 52(88), 124–141. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2022.173262