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Yazarlar: Akram Hamid Hamzah, Zahra Hasan Jasim, Mohammed Hamzah Jassem

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Lamenting,Pragmatics,Speech acts,Death,Suffering.

Özet: Aran Islands in the north of Ireland are populated by the fishermen community whose life struggle continues with the dominant natural force of sea. Tragedy is a common aspect in the lives of these men and their speech reflects expression of emotion of suffering, agony, etc. in the wake of a tragic incident. J. M. Synge as a recognized Irish dramatist dramatizes the sufferings of the Irish fishermen through the play ‘Riders to the Sea’. It is a brief, one-act play, with straight forward action that engages the reader with questions of how death affects individuals and families. The sea on which the family is dependant has brought death to the head of the family and his sons. Maurya, the mother, the central figure, is the great sufferer who has lost her husband and six sons. Murya and her two daughters are desolate and give vent to their grief through speech acts of lamenting. It is essential to make a linguistic pragmatic analysis of the contextual potentials of the utterances dealing with their emotions on account of the tragic events that they encounter. The present paper is an attempt to make a pragmatic study of lamenting in the play and to see how the speech act dramatizes the sufferings of the poor women and how the dramatist makes heavy use of the lamenting speech act.

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