Speech Acts of Compliments in Nizar Qabbani Poems

Omar Hmood Ahmed

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This paper deals with the study of one type of the speech acts of expressives which is that of compliments. Generally, expressiveness is one major type of Searle's(1969) classifications of Speech Act Theory which is a major aspect of linguistics. The speaker, as the name implies, expresses what he feels to the hearer. Compliments can be used to refer to the speaker's romantic aspect as he makes the act of love to the hearer. This study is carried out through choosing parts from some poems of  Nizar Qabbani which are all directed to the woman in a way of expressing the compliments in general and the love in particular. The poet performs the speech acts of compliments to the woman explicitly and such compliment in most of the poems has an implicit meaning which involves the love of the homeland by using the personification in a pragmatic way. So he is named the poet of "woman and homeland" (because the woman is a homeland). The research is analyzed by taking nineteen poetic texts. They are written in the transliteration model of Arabic and then they are written in the target language (English) by following a literary accepted translation. Each text is discussed in a very simplified way. Then the most important part of this work is that of the applications of Searle's sincerity condition of the speech acts of compliments for each selected text.

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Nizar Qabbani, Compliments, love, poet, poem, expressive, Searle, flattery, speech act, speaker, hearer, sincerity condition..etc

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