Persuasive Speech Acts in Familial Discourse Across Cultures

الملخص

    This study aims to identify and classify the persuasive strategies employed by American and Iraqi husbands and wives in family conversations. It also analyzes the structure, types, and performative verbs associated with persuasive speech acts. Concerning the problem of the study, the existing literature has emphasized the social effects of persuasion, rather than its performative and interactive dimensions due to methodological approaches that have prioritized aggregate data. It hypothesizes that there is a complex interplay of language, power, gender, and persuasion in marital communication. So, applying a pragmatically informed analytical lens to spousal conversations across cultural contexts offers both theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of interpersonal pragmatics and discourse analysis. The data analysis was conducted on two levels