Speech act analysis of British and American poetry
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Suporn Leongkamchorn (2010). Speech act analysis of British and American poetry. Retrieved from: http://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/3222.
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Speech act analysis of British and American poetry
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Abstract
Usually, when learning poetry, students are encouraged to let their imagination
run wild and consider elements relating to a poem, such as historical background, the
poet’s biography, and figures of speech to come up with the literary interpretation.
However, this traditional way of learning poetry is too ideal, complicated, and
difficult, especially for new poetry students. The purpose of this study was to apply a
supporting device, speech act theory, in the linguistics field to learn poetry in the
literature field. Felicity conditions of each act play important roles as a more
systematic, concrete, readily understandable tool to appreciate the aesthetics of
poetry. The study analyzed British and American poems to find out the speech acts
and compare felicity conditions of each act to what happened in the excerpt to crosscheck
the literary interpretation. The results revealed that felicity condition from the
speech act theory helped in cross-checking the literary interpretation and also made
the poetry comprehension easier, more explainable, and more systematic than solely
relying on imagination and elements conventionally used in the literature field. As a
result, the heuristic tool from linguistics could be combined, applied, and standardized
in the poetry pedagogy so that students could easily comprehend the piece and deeply
adore its aesthetics.
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Thesis (M.A. (Language and Communication))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2010.