Speech Act of Vow in Quranic Discourse

This paper has tackled a very important topic pragmatics which is speech act of vows in the holy Quran. In this paper the researcher has proved that the vow is a speech act that accomplishes the three levels of any speech act by analyzing some verses of the holy Quran which are frank vows. The research consists of two parts. The theoretical part which provides an introduction about the meaning of speech act, levels, types, and while various examples from Holly Qur�an will be discussed in the second part to prove that the Speech Act of Vow in Quranic Discourse is a true. It ends with a conclusion which sums up the main findings of the research.