Abstract
The theory of speech acts, which clarifies what people do when they speak, is not about individual words or sentences that form the basic elements of human communication, but rather about particular speech acts that are performed when uttering words. A speech act is the attempt at doing something purely by speaking. Many things can be done by speaking. Speech acts are studied under what is called speech act theory, and belong to the domain of pragmatics. In this paper, two Egyptian inaugural speeches from El-Sadat and El-Sisi, belonging to different periods were analyzed to find out whether there were differences within this genre in the same culture or not. The study showed that there was a very small difference between these two speeches which were analyzed according to Searle’s theory of speech acts. In El Sadat’s speech, commissives came to occupy the first place. Meanwhile, in El–Sisi’s speech, assertives occupied the first place. Within the speeches of one culture, we can find that the differences depended on the circumstances that surrounded the elections of the Presidents at the time. Speech acts were tools they used to convey what they wanted and to obtain support from their audiences.
Highlights
The theory of speech acts was introduced by J
Three aspects of a speech act are distinguished by Austin (1962) to: the illocutionary act, the illocutionary force and the perlocutionary effect
Analysis of Speech Act Patterns in Two Egyptian Inaugural Speeches | 135 denote the intended effect because the illocutionary act is considered as the real action performed by the utterance, while the effect of the utterance on the audience is manifested by the perlocutionary effect
Summary
The theory of speech acts was introduced by J. Three aspects of a speech act are distinguished by Austin (1962) to: the illocutionary act (saying something), the illocutionary force (what is intended to be done by speaking) and the perlocutionary effect (the effect of what has been said). The term speech act is often used to refer to an illocutionary act and illocutionary force to. Austin (1962) uses the term illocutionary act to refer to the speech act which is the center of his theory. This theory cannot be understood in isolation regardless of its intent which is pragmatics, which means the study of the use of utterances
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