خلاصة:
The prayer of Makarem al-Akhlaq is one of the moral and educational prayers narrated by Imam Sajjad (AS). This prayer, in addition to the sublime teachings, also has a coherent linguistic structure. Since the theory of speech act is an important aspect of the pragmatics of language and as a link between abstract theories of linguistics and objective reality. Therefore, the analysis speech act of this prayer as a glorious religious text reveals its invisible and various moral and educational dimensions. This research with descriptive-analytical method and based on John Searle's theory of speech act reached the results that among the five speech actions, »Directives act «, » Representatives act «, »Expressives act «and »commitment« speech actions with a specific purpose in shaping They play a role in the style of prayer. The act of »Directives act « that forms the main structure of prayer is in the form of requests to achieve the desired situation. Directives act that are combined in phrases with » Expressives act « or» Representatives act « actions in human individual and social education, is like a model based on human dignity.
ملخص الجهاز:
This research, using a descriptive-analytical method and based on John Searle's speech act theory, has reached the conclusion that among the five types of speech acts, the "directive," "assertive," "expressive," and also "commissive" speech acts play a role in shaping the style of the supplication with specific objectives.
2. Research Method The present writing, using a descriptive-analytical method and by addressing the Makarim al-Akhlaq supplication, which contains moral and educational themes, intends to examine the aforementioned supplication by utilizing the components of John Searle's speech act theory, identify the five types of speech acts, namely assertive, declarative, directive, expressive, and commissive speech acts, and in the next step, determine the style of the supplication in relation to speech acts by analyzing the obtained data derived from the intra-linguistic and extra-linguistic context of the prayer.
A speech act is said to be an action that occurs as a result of an intentional utterance; therefore, it focuses more on examining the forms and rules of non-verbal action (Searle, 1969, p68); hence, "saying" is equivalent to "acting," and by uttering these sentences, the speaker performs an action; thus, the model that speech act theory offers regarding language is an attitude toward the use and meaning of language that presents it within a context and places linguistic behavior within the social and situational conditions from which it emerged (Makarik, 1384, p.
{Refer to the attached table file} The general theme of the discourse in the present text is the same directive speech act which, in the form of command and prohibition, indirectly refers to request and petition.