The Effect of the Author's Gender on the Use of the Speech Acts in Children's Literature in Kurdish

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Jalal Tabashir
Ph. D. candidate of Linguistics, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran
Abstract
Language users produce utterances to express and convey their meaning, these utterances, in addition to conveying meaning and concepts, also end up performing an action, which is called speech acts (Yule, 2011: 47). The present study examines speech acts in children's fiction in Kurdish. It has been tried to identify the types of speech acts introduce by Searle (1969) and classify them based on the frequency of their distribution. Also, the effect of the author's gender on the use of speech acts should be measured. For this purpose, a raw corpus of 20 children's story books, containing 1203 sentences was prepared, the speech acts used in the stories were classified based on the type of the speech act and the gender of the character produced the sentence. The significance of the differences was analyzed using SPSS 26. The results of the descriptive statistics showed that in total 5 types of speech acts: assertive, directives, expressive, commissives, and declarations were used by the authors. Also, the number of speech acts used by women and men is not the same, that is, women have used assertive, expressive, and declaration speech acts more than men, and on the other hand, men have used directives and commissive speech acts more than women. Based on the results of the inferential statistics, the effect of the gender factor on the rate of speech acts used is not neutral and its effect can be confirmed. By using speech acts, the authors have tried to make the reader more familiar with the events of the stories, based on this, the presence of speech acts is necessary to clarify the writer's purpose and goals.

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Pazand Quarterly
Volume 16, Issue 61
Winter 2023
Pages 41-63