“Conselho de amigo, aviso do céu”: contributions to the semantic-pragmatic analysis of illocutionary acts of advice and warning in comparison with threats

Authors

  • Carla Aurélia de Almeida Departamento de Humanidades da Universidade Aberta / Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln2ano2016a1

Keywords:

illocutionary act, uptake, threats, warnings, advices

Abstract

Based on selected examples of spoken European Portuguese, this paper discusses the organization and functioning of the illocutionary acts of advice and warning, highlighting the resemblances and differences between them and discourse acts such as threats and promises, hypothetic warnings and conditional threats. After the analysis of Grice’s notion of “meaning” and Austin’s notion of “uptake”, we emphasize the relation between intention and convention, in the analysis of Searle’s illocutionary acts, and map the rules that determine illocutionary force indicating devices. The interpretation of illocutionary values in the sequence of interventions highlights the relation between discursive practices and face work theory.

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Published

2016-10-31

How to Cite

de Almeida, C. A. (2016). “Conselho de amigo, aviso do céu”: contributions to the semantic-pragmatic analysis of illocutionary acts of advice and warning in comparison with threats. Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association, (2), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln2ano2016a1

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No. 2 (2016): Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association

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