Students' Ability to Diagnose Threat and Warning Act Clues in George (original) (raw)
The obvious tension and similarity between the concepts of threat and warning has made it difficult to distinguish between them and has remained a challenge for students, researchers and translators. Surveying the literature review of these two concepts, the researcher has found that little attention has been paid to the difference between these two acts in general and to postgraduate students’ ability to distinguish between them in particular. Accordingly, the current thesis is dedicated to investigate the ability of Iraqi M.A. students to differentiate between the two acts pragmatically in George Orwell’s novel “1984”. To achieve the objective of the study and answer its research question, the researcher adopts Searle’s version of Speech Act Theory (1971) amalgamated with the threat and warning features supported by Allan (1983). The study reveals that most of the M.A. students confuse between the two acts because they believe that both threat and warning are synonyms in their usage.
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