A Pragmatic Study of Oaths in Arabic Ceremonies

Language is viewed as a kind of communication that includes greeting, requesting, threatening, demanding, thanking, swearing, and so on. Oath fundamental foundation the language individuals regularly use. considered linguistic phenomenon exists in most languages for same purpose various structures. The current study intends to investigate oaths how they are constructed deliver message discover pragmatic features chosen relating performative speech actions presuppositions. used mixed research technique, both qualitative quantitative, explore characterize five English oaths. It has been determined involve explicit implicit acts represented by verbs "swear pledge" future tense structure. Furthermore, found meet Searle's taxonomy actions, with two sorts presuppositions, existential lexical.