Basic illocutions in the native languages of Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Hengeveld, Kess
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Bechara, Eli Nazareth, Camacho, Roberto Gomes, Guerra, Alessandra Regina, Oliveira, Taísa Peres de, Penhavel, Eduardo, Pezatti, Erotilde Goreti, Santana, Liliane, Souza, Edson Rosa Francisco de, Teixeira, Maria Luiza de Sousa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Alfa (São José do Rio Preto. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/1438
• topic: Typology; Illocution; Indigenous Languages; Functional Discourse Grammar

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.