Assertives as a method for revealing mysticism
Keywords:
mysticism, speech act, illocution, assertives, directivesAbstract
This paper is aimed to explain how the assertive speech acts can be used to reveal mysticism concepts in some selected poems of one of the greatest American poets who is Henery David Thoreau. The used method of analysis in this study is the qualitative one. The procedures that is followed to show how assertives are used to reveal mysticism, involve comparing the occurrences and percentage to another speech acts that is being identified through the selected poems. the comparison is to explain how the nature of assertive determines its distribution within the selected poems. Therefore, the results of the analysis show that high distribution of assertive in comparison with directives is related to the nature of assertives that helps the poets in expressing anything related to the case or truth of mystic concepts. The result of the study reveal that assertive speech acts can be functioned to explain mysticism concept as assertive speech act explain mysticism concept in the selected text to be analyzed in this study.
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