Speech Acts and the Contents of Speech in the Dialogue of Noah - Peace Be Upon Him - and His People: A Discourse Analysis Approach in Surah "Ash-Shu'ara –

Abstract

The structural approaches have surpassed contextual approaches that connect the text to its externalities, whether through linking it to its author or to the social, political, and historical circumstances surrounding it. Therefore, structural approaches originate from within the text and return to it. This trend began with structuralists who considered the text a closed structure while not denying the role of external factors in its production. However, the task of uncovering these factors falls to sociologists, psychologists, and historians, while literary critics focus on revealing its smaller components and the dynamics of the text, as well as the relationships between its elements.

Since discourse analysis is one of these structural approaches, our research paper examines its procedures through speech acts and the contents of speech. Speech act theory is considered one of the most important foundations upon which linguistic studies were built, whether with its founder, Austin, or his student, Searle. Additionally, the contents of speech stem from our intention, often implying more than what is explicitly stated, which leads the speaker to implicit meanings, driven by political reasons or societal taboos.

The aim of this intervention is to uncover the manifestations of these theoretical propositions in a Quranic context through an applied approach to the dialogue of Noah (peace be upon him) with his people in Surah "Ash-Shu'ara" (The Poets).