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This study aims to analyze the speech acts used in Abu Ubaidah’s statements on Gaza events. Drawing on Seale's (1969) theory of speech acts, the study carefully investigates how speech acts in these statements provided effective and significant messages, intentions, and meanings. To this end, a few statements delivered by Abu Ubaidah on Gaza events were selected, supported by some previous studies. The study finds that Referring to the preliminary fact, this paper is certainly not aimed at resisting and responding to the distressing stories in Gaza. Being aware of the limitations of this paper, the major goal of this study is, however, to expose the mental and social mechanisms of the participants when they conveyed the actual enunciation openly to others. This study, based on a socio-linguistic approach, attempts to investigate the pragmatic values of Abu Ubaidah's statements. To account for the above ideologies, this study is dedicated to uncovering the mental and social mechanisms of Abu Ubaidah’s by employing a speech act analysis. The Arab-Israeli conflict, now spread in Gaza Strip, has become the main theme that receives much public attention
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