Investigating The Use of Speech Act of Requesting among poeple within Tiaret.

Abstract

This research is pragmatic study which focuses on the analysis of speech act of request, however,there has not been a lot of work done on speech acts by Tiaret community. This study will contribute to the viewpoints by questioning speech acts of requesting among people of Tiaret speech community. Moreover, the research results will explain the role of language variation in Tiaret speech community. To do so, the study used a mixed method that relies on quantitative and qualitative data.The data were obtained through observation,recording and note taking. The findings reveals that people of Tiaretregions (Tiaret ,Souger ,Tekhmert ,Frenda)use direct speech act of requests. However, the formulation of this directness differs from region to region, due to the richness of their language and culture variation.