SPEECH ACTS IN KIRINYAGA COUNTY ANGLICAN CHURCH SERVICES, KENYA

Gerald Njuki Muriithi

Abstract


This study is based on a pulpit discourse and aimed at determining the speech acts that are used in sermons. The research is based on the Anglican Churches within Kirinyaga. The study shows how priests use the speech act to influence the hearers or congregation to make decisions. The research was also based on both speech act theory and the cooperative principle to understand the contextual basis deep. The maxims of the speech act are discussed, and recommendations are made on how they are supposed to be embraced for quality purposes. The research used several methods of collecting first-hand information. These methods were both based on qualitative and quantitative data. They include observation, recording, and direct interviews which were later analyzed and recorded for reference in the future. For instance, the recordings were transcribed and recorded in disks that were not prone to attack by malware. The types of speech acts used in the sermons include verdictives, commissives, declarations, representatives, and directives. These speech acts were representing a part of the sermon which conveyed a strong basis of the sermon. Thus, it acted as a strengthening catalyst. The study on the other hand showed how the speaker used the speech acts to inform, congratulate, make promises, and condemn. It is therefore recommended that the Bible Teaching Institutions should make sure before releasing a person for priestly duties is well conformed with the speech acts in such a way that the congregation can rely on them in times of word which is aimed at changing their lives and affecting their decision making. In conclusion, the research is solely concerned with speech acts in Anglican Churches within Kirinyaga and the same should be done in other churches to come up with a contextual distinctive clue on the same subject.

Article visualizations:

Hit counter


Keywords


speech acts, Anglican, verdictives, representatives, commissives, declarations, and directives

Full Text:

PDF

References


Brady, R. (1981). Verdictives, self-presentation, and self-knowledge. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 19(1), 11-20.

Damasio, A. R. (2000). A role for somatosensory cortices in the visual recognition of emotion as revealed by three-dimensional lesion mapping. Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 2683-2690.

Dorschel, A. (1987). What is it to understand a directive speech act? Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 67(3), 319-340.

Goodman, N. D., & Liang, P. (2018). Planning, inference and pragmatics in sequential language games. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 6, 543-555.

Green, M. (2007). Speech acts.

Griffin, E. (2000). A First Look at Communication Theory (4th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Kambo, R. N. (1997). An Analysis of Presuppositions, Speech Acts, Implicatures and Socio-ideological Values in Written Advertisements (Unpublished M.Phil. Thesis). Moi University.

Kasper, G., & Rose, K. R. (Eds.). (2001). Pragmatics in language teaching. Ernst Klett Sprachen.

Lappin, S. (1982). On the pragmatics of mood. Linguistics and Philosophy, 4(4), 559-578.

Lindblom, K. (2006). Cooperative principle. Concise encyclopedia of pragmatics, 151-158

Miller, C. (1994). The Empowered Communicator: Keys to Unlocking an audience. Tennessee: Broadman and Holman Publishers

Newman, M. Z. (2010). New media, young audiences and discourses of attention: from Sesame Street to ‘snack culture’. Media, Culture & Society, 32(4), 581-596.

Nordquist, R. (2019). The Definition of Listening and How to Do It Well.

Sari, N. I. (2019). An Analysis of Speech Acts Used in English Teaching. Borneo Educational Journal (Borju), 1(2), 16-22.

Searle, J. R. (1968). Austin on locutionary and illocutionary acts. The philosophical review, 77(4), 405-424.

Siedlecki, S. L. (2020). Understanding descriptive research designs and methods. Clinical Nurse Specialist, 34(1), 8-12.

Strawson, P. F. (1964). Intention and convention in speech acts. The philosophical review, 73(4), 439-460.

Taiwo, R. (2005). Forms and Functions of Interrogation in Christian Pulpit Discourse. Nebula. 2(4), 117-131.

Trenholm, S. (2001). Thinking through Communication: An Introduction to the Study of Human Communication (3rd ed.). New York: Allyn and Bacon.

Weigand, E. (2010). Dialogue the Mixed Game (Vol. 10). John Benjamins Publishing.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejals.v4i1.279

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The research works published in this journal are free to be accessed. They can be shared (copied and redistributed in any medium or format) and\or adapted (remixed, transformed, and built upon the material for any purpose, commercially and\or not commercially) under the following terms: attribution (appropriate credit must be given indicating original authors, research work name and publication name mentioning if changes were made) and without adding additional restrictions (without restricting others from doing anything the actual license permits). Authors retain the full copyright of their published research works and cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license terms are followed.

Copyright © 2018-2023. European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies (ISSN 2602 - 0254 / ISSN-L 2602 - 0254). All rights reserved.

This journal is a serial publication uniquely identified by an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) serial number certificate issued by Romanian National Library. All the research works are uniquely identified by a CrossRef DOI digital object identifier supplied by indexing and repository platforms. All the research works published on this journal are meeting the Open Access Publishing requirements and standards formulated by Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003) and Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003) and can be freely accessed, shared, modified, distributed and used in educational, commercial and non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Copyrights of the published research works are retained by authors.