Expressed and implied locutionary acts in shaw's Major Barbar

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The present paper investigates the form and function of Searle's (1979) Speech Act theory in literary analysis.

It reviews the way language can be an action in literary discourse.

The paper accounts for illocutionary performative speech acts in Shaw's play Major Barbara based on selected sample texts.

Types of illocutionary acts with their expressed or implied acts are accounted for with their correlation with felicity conditions.

The paper draws on the understanding of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts in Major Barbara to be analyzed.

The data is representative.