GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies Volume 22(4), November 2022 http://doi.org/10.17576/gema-2022-2204-11 eISSN: 2550-2131
ISSN: 1675-8021 201 discourse, fallacies can only be performed as a complex speech act because the structure of fallacies requires the performance of more than one speech act. The use of speech act in the analysis of fallacies helps considering the degree of reasonableness in analyzing argumentative discourse, i.e. by analyzing the real intention of the speaker (illocutionary force)
and the context, the fallacious act can be revealed and discovered. That is to say, fallacies are inductive arguments that require the inference of the unexpressed premise, which can only be inferred from the context of the
argument under investigation, indicating the importance of the context in analyzing any fallacious argument. In relation to the speech act, the study concluded that fallacies have two illocutionary forces one at the sentence level and the other at the argumentation level. At the sentence level, fallacies can be looked at as a series of elementary speech acts belonging
to the category of assertives, each premise individually is a single speech act. At the argumentation level, the series of elementary speech acts compose the complex speech act of fallacies. It can also be concluded that the Pragma-dialectical approach is valid for analyzing monologue speech political discourse, contributing significantly to the body of knowledge as the first study to do so given that this approach was designed to analyze dialogue speech political debate. Likewise, such an approach can investigate texts of diversified languages including Arabic. This study also provides a significant contribution to the analysis of rhetorical fallacies in political discourse as they need to be analyzed as complex speech acts. Otherwise, analyzing fallacies as a single act lacks adequate understanding and interpretation.
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