Author: Safa Naji Abd, Riyadh Tariq Kadhim
Page: 44-51
Published online: 22 Dec 2021
Abstract: 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 tex...