El-Tawassol التواصل
Volume 29, Numéro 5, Pages 14-23
2023-12-28

Sarcasm: An Illocutionary Force Of Gratitude Expressions In Algerian Arabic

Authors : Hammoudi Khedidja .

Abstract

Thanking does not all the time involve the sense of being grateful to someone for something; rather, it has other functions and purposes among which sarcasm is one. This paper attempts at revealing the sarcastic function of thanking by taking Algerian Arabic as a data source. Analysis of the illocutionary force of this speech act shows that this pragmatic phenomenon can be explained with reference to violation of felicity conditions, floating of Grice’s maxims of the cooperative principle, and activating conversational implicature.

Keywords

Algerian Arabic ; Grice's Maxims ; Thanking ; Sarcasm