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دراسة تداولية للنذر في النصوص الانجيلية == A PRAGMATIC STUDY OF VOW IN BIBLICAL VERSES
Author name:
ابتهال جاسم عباس الشريفي
Supervisor name:
رزاق نايف مخيف الشافعي
General topic:
Foreign Languages
Specific topic:
English - Language
Degree:
Master
University:
University of Babylon - College Of Education For Human Sciences
Language:
English
University location:
Babylon
First pages:
06T1063 - p.pdf
Abstract:
Vow is a voluntarily act in which the speaker promises God something if his petition is granted. It is made only to God as a voluntarily act, yet it becomes obligatory once it is made. This study has set itself to deal with this issue because, to the best of the researcher's knowledge, it has not been dealt with fairly in modern writings. The present study attempts to study vow in biblical texts from a pragmatic perspective. Consequently, it has set the following aims : (1) identifying the types of vow used in the Bible; (2) looking for the functions of vow in the Bible; (3)shedding light on the different structures that are used in performing vow; (4) investigating the speech act of vow in relation to other speech acts like pledges, promises, and oaths; (5) identifying the pragmatic components and strategies used in making vow; (6) finding out how rhetorical devices are utilized in making vow; (7) and using an eclectic model for the analysis of biblical texts of vow. To achieve the aims of this study, the following hypotheses are put forward : (1) there are different types of vow which are used in the Bible; (2) each type has its own function; (3) more than one structure is used in performing vow in the Bible; (4) there is a close relation between the act of vow and other acts like pledge, promise, and oath; (5) vow is made by using different pragmatic components like the use of speech act of vow, politeness principle, presuppositions, and deixis; (6) persuasive appeals, repetition (including full repetition, parallelism, and chiasmus), irony, and symbol, as rhetorical devices, can be utilized in making vow. To test the validity of these hypotheses, certain procedures are followed : (1) introducing a survey of literature about biblical vows and pragmatic and rhetorical notions that have relations to the aims of the study; (2) analyzing biblical texts of vow according to the eclectic model of the study. The study falls into five chapters. Chapter One introduces the problem, aims, hypotheses, procedures, limits, and value of the study. Chapter Two is devoted to the theoretical background of vow. Chapter Three presents a pragmatic perspective of vow as an attempt to develop a model for analyzing the data. Chapter Four presents the practical side of the study in which some biblical texts are chosen to be analyzed pragmatically. Lastly, Chapter Five sums up the conclusions, recommendations, as well as suggestions for further studies.
