Author:
Safa Naji Abd and Riyadh Tariq Kadhim
Page: 44-51
Published online: 22 Dec 2021
https://doi.org/
Regret reflects the cognitive states of the speakers (or other agents) specified in the propositional contents. Each one may find him/herself tending to experience painful feeling for his/her unsuitable choices. Therefore, The study approaches regret from a cognitivepragmatic perspective and it aims at: finding out the felicity conditions to identify regret as a speech act in Biblical and Quranic verses, pinpointing the strategies and ways through which this act is recognized in the selected texts, identifying the deictic expressions in the texts of regret, showing the impacts of metaphor in such texts and contrasting the most common cognitive-pragmatic strategies that are involved in the two texts.