Basic illocutions in the native languages of Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Hengeveld, Kess
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Bechara, Eli Nazareth [UNESP], Camacho, Roberto Gomes [UNESP], Guerra, Alessandra Regina [UNESP], Oliveira, Taísa Peres de [UNESP], Penhavel, Eduardo [UNESP], Pezatti, Erotilde Goreti [UNESP], Santana, Liliane [UNESP], Souza, Edson Rosa Francisco de [UNESP], Teixeira, Maria Luiza de Sousa [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/1438; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/107126
• 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.