HOW SPEECH ACT THEORY (SAT) IS APPLIED IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Аннотация

This article looks at the main fields of discourse analysis, such as Conversation Analysis (CA), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), interactional sociolinguistics, and corpus-assisted approaches, in addition to the analytical tools offered by Speech Act Theory (SAT). In order to identify actions like asking, promising, criticizing, apologizing, and taking a stance in political discourse, social media, and institutional talk (news interviews, classrooms, and medical consultations), we operationalize illocutionary force, indirectness, politeness, and context. This builds on the fundamental insights of Austin and Searle. Through a mixed-methods design that includes a small, illocutionary corpus and qualitative micro-analysis of action formation, we correlate micro-pragmatic actions to macro-discursive effects (power, ideology, (im)politeness) and illustrate practical coding techniques (locutionary / illocutionary / perlocutionary segmentation, Searle’s taxonomy, politeness/mitigation features). Findings indicate While CDA situates these activities within broader power dynamics, SAT uses form-function mappings influenced by sociocultural norms, sequential position, and participation frameworks to explain how speakers perform social actions. Our conclusions focus on transparent annotation, CA/CDA triangulation, and reproducible reporting