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Kavoshnameh in Persian Language and Literature Vol 20, No43, Winter 2020
The Analysis of Sultan Amir Masoud’s letter to
Kharazmshah Altontash from The History of Beyhaqi
based on speech act theory of John Rogers Searle
Zahra Samaie Master of Persian Language and Literature, Al-Mustafa Al-Alimi School
Dr.Mohammad Javad Erfan Beizaie
Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Payame
Noor University of Mashhad
Dr. Hssan Bassak
Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Payame
Noor University of Mashhad
Abstract
Literature texts have numerous meaning layers and pragmatic
interpretations. The reader must extract the intent of the writer or narrator
from the text. Human minds use different processes consciously and
unconsciously to achieve this goal. The specialists of multiple fields in
humanities, such as linguistics and its subsets have had a high regard for
how to extract meanings and the hidden intent in a text from the past. The
notion of speech act is one of the solutions for understanding the hidden
meanings of a text. The history of Beyhaqi is one of the ancient texts which
is considered as one of the best literary texts because of its style that
indicates the fluency and excellent ability of its writer, Beyhaqi. This
research has analyzed “Sultan Amir Masoud’s letter to kharazmshah
Altontash” from the history of Beyhaqi based on speech act theory. This
notion is constantly used in applied semantics and is located within
discourse analysis domain. In this letter, the writer has used more directive
acts compared with fewer expressive acts that indicates various meanings.
Keywords: speech act; discourse analysis; The history of Beyhaqi; John
Rogers Searle; Sultan Masoud.
Date of receiving: 2017/4/10 Date of final accepting: 2018/12/21 1 - email of responsible writer: [email protected]
