Authors

• Zirak Mahjob ¹
• Farhad Sasani ²

¹ PhD student at the University of Hiroshima, School of Higher Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Art, Department of Language Studies

² Associate Professor, Al-Zahra University

Abstract

  Speech Acts in Ta'ziye & Their Realizations in Performance     F. Sasani [1]   Z. Mahjoub [2]   Received: 2011.02.08   Accepted: 2012.04.29     Abstract   Act and movement may be regarded as fundamentals of plays. Here, language has its specific role in the multimodal or multilayered text of a play. In other respects, it, however, could be considered to be substituted by body and other elements of movement and act. This idea is clearly developed in speech act theory, and discourse studies on language. Thus, language is not merely representative of the truth and falseness of a speech, as it may itself entrust acts. This is especially significant in plays, significantly in minimal plays such as ta'ziye, which has relatively few body movements. In this kind of play, language represents many movements and acts. Based on speech act theory, this paper, therefore, attempts to study acts made through language in the majles (episode) of the martyrdom of Imam Hossein (as). Finally, it compares these acts with their substituted movements so that it may determine how far verbal elements of the written text are represented in the performance. This comparison shows that in ta'ziye as a confessionary, narrative and ceremonial play, verbal act is found more frequently than any other act.     Keywords: verbal act, illocutionary act, perlocutionary act, direct performative verb, ta'ziye.       [1] . Associate Proffesor; Alzahra University ; fsasani49@yahoo.com   2 . PhD Candidate; Linguistics, Hiroshima University, Japan; mahjoob_zirak@yahoo.com  

Keywords

• verbal act
• illocutionary act
• perlocutionary act
• direct performative verb
• ta'ziye