University of Sulaymaniyah

College of Language

English department

A pragmatic study of
the speech act of
congratulations in
English and Kurdish

Represent by: Dastan Bakhtyar Muhammed

Awat Bahroz
Urfa Shkour
representative: assistant professor Dr.Assel

Academic year: 2021-2022

 Title: A pragmatic study of the speech act of congratulations in
English and Kurdish

Table of content:
1. Abstract
2. introduction
2.1 what is study of pragmatic
2.2 what is speech act
3. introduction to contrasting between languages
4. close study of congratulations act speech
4.1 what are the expressions of congratulations in both languages?
4.2 the way of expressing
4.3 comparing key-words
4.4 a pragmatic study of the speech act in both language
5. conclusion
5.1 a summary about the speech act
5.2 concluding statement based on gathered information
 Abstract

Because congratulations are a speech act, it is included in the study of

pragmatics. The current study looks at congratulation tactics in the Kurdish
language in a few different scenarios. The pragmatic analysis of the
congratulation speech act was used in this work, titled 'Congratulation and
its Strategies in the Kurdish Language.' Statistical equations were used to
determine the rate of use of each congratulation strategy. In studying these
congratulation tactics in the Kurdish language, the current study used
Elwood's approach.
The study's main goal is to identify the types of congratulation tactics
utilized in various contexts, or even the frequency with which they are
applied in Kurdish culture. The research is split into two sections. The first
section includes a broad definition and summary of the different types of
congratulation, as well as pragmatics and congratulation, and Kurds and
congratulation strategy. The second section will focus to the Kurdish
language's congratulation approaches.