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Authors
1 Associate Professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at Semnan University
2 PhD in Arabic language and literature - Semnan University
Abstract
Context in the field of textology is one of the basic components that gives a functional role to the language of the text. The speech act theory is one of the pragmatic theories that considers the main meaning of linguistic statements to be dependent on its user. Therefore, understanding the used language depends on receiving the surrounding context and creating a positive interaction between it and the content. The discourse of caliphate in Nahj al-Balagha is a historical-political discourse; From this point of view, it was necessary to analyze this discourse in the shadow of the Imam Ali's linguistic statements and the external conditions governing them and to reconstruct the historical background of the caliphate. The present research hopes, by using the descriptive-analytical method and relying on John Searle's fife parts of the speech acts theory statements, to analyze the language used in the discourse of the caliphate. The findings of this study show that the statements used in the Caliphate discourse have a very strong relationship with the external context, so that language has gone out from its pure productive role and took a pragmatic role. The actions in speech and the ability to emphasize, explain, advise, and warn have a high frequency in the Imam's (AS) linguistic statements, which can be traced firstly in the form of declarative, persuasive, commitment, and emotional discourses in this discourse, and secondly, these discourses are most often manifested through indirect strategies and implicitly.
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