كرده‌یا په‌یماندانێ د كورته‌ چیرۆكا باژێرێ ژێر زه‌ميندا

Abstract

The speech act of promising is one of the major topics in pragmatics. It refers to a speaker's commitment whether to perform an action or not. This study addresses the speech act of promising in a short story entitled "The Underground City". The study is an attempt to examine the speech act of promising following Austin's model and applying it to Ismail Hajani's short story "The Underground City". The aim of this study is to identify all the speech acts of promising in this short story. Moreover, it tries to identify the direct and indirect speech acts of promising with their frequencies and percentages. In addition to an introduction, results and bibliography, this study consists of two sections. The first section covers definitions, terminology, characteristics and functions of the speech act of promising. The second section examines the speech act of promising in the aforementioned short story based on Austin's model with reference to their frequencies