Artículos de revistas
Basic illocutions in the native languages of Brazil
Fecha
2007Registro en:
ALFA: Revista de Linguística, v. 51, n. 2, 2007.
1981-5794
0002-5216
ISSN1981-5794-2007-51-2-73-90.pdf
4198947182501852
1169636505222013
4606628264812069
0000-0002-8897-7953
0000-0003-1303-1394
Autor
Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Institución
Resumen
This paper shows that the distribution of basic illocutions (defined as grammatical structures that can be related to a default communicative intentions) within and across the indigenous languages of Brazil can be described systematically in terms of a set of implicational hierarchies by means of which the existence of certain basic illocutions can be predicted from the existence of others. In doing so, a case is made for a major distinction between propositional and behavioural basic illocutions, the former having to do with the exchange of information, the latter with influencing behaviour.