Abstract
Tackling any text, e.g. political one, without pragmatic theory constitutes a real problem in the communicative act. the need to shed light on distinctive rules concerning the speech act of assertion is crucial. So this study is concerned with how to establish a model of expressing the speech act of assertion, whether direct or indirect, by using the sentence types of declarative, interrogative, or imperative sentences. Since this utilization highly overlaps with other speech acts as command, obligation, permission, ability, etc. Therefore, this research attempts to answer the following questions:
 1- Can this study formulate a model for analysing the speech act of assertion, and on which bases it can be established?
 2- How to formulate Felicity conditions for the speech act of assertion?
 3- Whether speech act of assertion can be successfully applied to political speeches?
 4- Which sentence type can typically express the direct speech act of assertion?
 5- Could other sentence types indicate the speech act of assertion?
Highlights
1- Can this study formulate a model for analysing the speech act of assertion, and on which bases it can be established?
Crystal (2003: 427) definesspeechact as a term derived from the work of Austin (1911_1960) to refer to a theory which analyses the role of utterances in relation to the behaviour of speaker and hearer in interpersonal communication
Searle (1969: 33-42) draws attention to the constitutive rules. He (1971: 40) statesthat "to perform illocutionary acts is to engage in a rule-governed form of behaviour."Searle modifies Austin’s felicity conditions
Summary
Crystal (2003: 427) definesspeechact as a term derived from the work of Austin (1911_1960) to refer to a theory which analyses the role of utterances in relation to the behaviour of speaker and hearer in interpersonal communication. Pagin (2007: 1-3) sees assertion as a speech act in which something is claimed to hold. He adds that assertionisapropositional act in that it relates the speaker to a proposition, or is an act with propositional content
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