Selected Utterances from the Christian Scriptures. A Pragmatic Study

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Theology - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This research work is a pragmatic analysis of selected utterances from the Christian scriptures using the speech act theory of Searle of 1969 and Politeness theory stipulated by Brown and Levinson. The motivation for this study is the fact that the Christian scriptures has received little atten...