In a communication situation, the person can freely express his/her ideas, but to be able to understand the intention of somebody, it is first necessary that the situation of enunciation is understood and that the context is observed. That is why pragmatics takes into account the utterance not only from the speaker's point of view, but also from the way the utterance is received and transmitted. Similarly, the relationship that this statement maintains with its interlocutor, the conditions of production and/or reception of this statement are the subject of particular attention. This article follows this logic. Using the theory of speech acts developed by J. L. Austin, it pursues the objective of showing that J. P. Bazié performs speech acts in his poems. Perlocutionary acts in particular indicate that the speaker positions himself in the struggle of peoples for their future. Therefore, by analyzing the speech acts performed by the speaker and by the shift from the speaker to the author, the study has come to the conclusion that J. P. Bazié is a committed writer.

Keywords:

pragmatics, acts of language, poetry, commitment

Pages:

53-68

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Type:

Research Paper

Field:

Literary Semiotics

Topic:

(Literary) Language and Social Conditioning

UDC:

821.133.1.09”19”-32(092)

DOIs:

https://doi.org/10.20235/lc.2024(1)4,
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10452196

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