Abstract

This study aims to find out the explicit and implicit speech acts in Novel Peer-e-Kamil Chapter 1 by Umera Ahmad. Searle Speech Act model (1983) has been used to analyze the implicit and explicit utterances. The model includes declaratives, expressives, commissives, directives, representatives/ assertives through explicit (direct) or implicit (indirect) way. In this, model of verb structuring and noun structuring is also used by W. Cohen (2004). This is a qualitative research design as sample of 55 speech acts utterances from the novel are taken to investigate the explicitness or implicitness, collecting and analyzing data to see the insights more specifically and elaborates the results according to required perception for describing the facts. The findings revealed that in novel’s chapter 1, expressives and representatives are used more explicitly rather than declaratives, commissives and directives.