Abstract
Speech acts are considered as one of the most important foundations of
pragmatic analysis by creating an impact on the recipient based on
understanding the addressee’s intent, and benefiting the addressee is one of the
important goals that cannot be neglected. The speaker chooses vocabulary and
arranges it according to the intention he follows in speaking. Austin was able
to lay down the main principles of the theory of speech acts, but the theory did
not stop there. It expanded and became more mature with the second pioneer
in the philosophy of ordinary language, namely the American philosopher John
Searle. His tasks were to develop the theory by distinguishing within the
sentence between what is related to the action included in the statement itself,
which he calls the power included in the statement, and what is related to the
content of the action, which he calls the name of propositional content. In this
study, we will rely on Searle's opinions and search for the five speech acts
affected by context and internal and external factors, used in poetry collections,
A Vasham All khzrah, Ghasaed fi zaman Alfath, and Taghribat Bani Palestinein Walid Saif’s poetry based on the descriptive-analytical approach. The
results indicate that the poet used verbal acts to express positive and negative
emotions such as war, love, sadness, nostalgia, coercion, disappointment,
waiting, and his hope for the future. Through these speech acts, which were
mentioned directly and indirectly, we saw that the poet tends to use the five
speech acts to stir feelings and excite the recipient to accomplish an action. The
performance verb, both direct and indirect, was evident in poetic discourse,
revealing its power within specific linguistic contexts that facilitated the
realization of the poet’s verbal intentions and purposes through the words he
chose to serve his poetic text.
by the poet Walid Saif. This study aims to search for speech acts and employ