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A SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST SPEECH OF IMRAN KHAN AS PRIME MINISTER

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-II).01      10.31703/gpr.2020(V-II).01      Published : Jun 2020

A Speech Act Analysis of the First Speech of Imran Khan as Prime Minister

    This paper aims to highlight the speech acts which have been working behind the first speech that has delivered by Imran Khan as Prime Minister of Pakistan at 26, July 2018. It is a political discourse that attracts the researcher's interest. The objective of this paper is to answer what type of speech acts have been used by Imran Khan, the overlapping of what speech acts occur in Imran Khan's speech and what direct and indirect speech acts have been used by Imran Khan. The findings revealed that his speech includes representative acts (27.083%), expressive acts (1.041%), declarative acts (7.291%), directive acts (25%), commissive acts (39.583%) out of the total 100% of data. This paper-based on both qualitative and quantitative analysis of discourse. The framework employed in this study is the Speech Act theory that has introduced by J.L Austin in 1962 and further developed by J.R Searle (1969).

    Locutionary Act, Illocutionary Act, Perlocutionary Act, Speech Act Analysis, Direct Speech Acts, Indirect Speech Acts
    (1) Tanveer Hussain
    Assistant Professor, School of Media and Communication Studies, University of Management and Technology Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Deeba Shahwar
    Lecturer, Department of Mass Communication, The Women University Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Abdul Basit
    Lecturer, School of Media and Communication Studies, University of Management and Technology Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Hussain, Tanveer, Deeba Shahwar, and Abdul Basit. 2020. "A Speech Act Analysis of the First Speech of Imran Khan as Prime Minister." Global Political Review, V (II): 1-10 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2020(V-II).01
    HARVARD : HUSSAIN, T., SHAHWAR, D. & BASIT, A. 2020. A Speech Act Analysis of the First Speech of Imran Khan as Prime Minister. Global Political Review, V, 1-10.
    MHRA : Hussain, Tanveer, Deeba Shahwar, and Abdul Basit. 2020. "A Speech Act Analysis of the First Speech of Imran Khan as Prime Minister." Global Political Review, V: 1-10
    MLA : Hussain, Tanveer, Deeba Shahwar, and Abdul Basit. "A Speech Act Analysis of the First Speech of Imran Khan as Prime Minister." Global Political Review, V.II (2020): 1-10 Print.
    OXFORD : Hussain, Tanveer, Shahwar, Deeba, and Basit, Abdul (2020), "A Speech Act Analysis of the First Speech of Imran Khan as Prime Minister", Global Political Review, V (II), 1-10
    TURABIAN : Hussain, Tanveer, Deeba Shahwar, and Abdul Basit. "A Speech Act Analysis of the First Speech of Imran Khan as Prime Minister." Global Political Review V, no. II (2020): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-II).01