Speech Act Theory in Arthur Miller's the Crucible

Abstract

The research aims to illustrate the important function of Speech Act
Theory of Searle (1969) in literary analysis. It shows the action of
language in literary discourse. The research traces illocutionary
performative speech acts in Miller's play ''The Crucible'' depended
on selected texts. Kinds of illocutionary speech acts are traced. The
research introduces the concept of locutionary, illocutionary and
perlocutionary speech acts. The selected data is a representative one
and it's taken from the four acts in literary discourse.