OFFENCE AS A SPEECH ACT

• Authors: Batar Levente
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

This paper introduces 'offence' as a new kind of speech act. We can consider it to be the opposite of 'compliment'. The author suggests that verbal aggression is so common in everyday life that it needs to be thoroughly examined. He conducted a questionnaire survey of twelve questions with the participation of two groups of teenagers, 13-14 and 16-17 years of age, respectively. The first six questions concerned physical, and the last six questions referred to linguistic, aggression. The main goals of the research were the following: (1) To see the difference, if any, between the utterances of the two age groups. (2) To find out whether it is physical or verbal aggression that makes people respond in a more aggressive way. (3) To reveal how the level of verbal aggression changes in utterances depending on the speaker or on the seriousness of the insult.

Keywords

EN

OFFENCE; SPEECH ACT; VERBAL AGGRESSION

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Hungarian Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 451-464
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Batar Levente

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Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11HUAAAA090431