An analysis of speech acts as implicatures on posters

Authors

  • Morgana Fabiola Cambrussi Docente da Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul - UFFS, Campus Chapecó, vinculada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística e ao Curso de Graduação em Letras.
  • Tatiana Alves Grupo Santa Rita, Unidade Chapecó-SC.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/ver.2016.30.74.05

Abstract

In this paper performative utterances are analyzed in some contexts when they are implicatured in posters. The study is based on Austin’s Speech Acts theory and on Grice’s Conversational Maxims theory. The central aim is to demonstrate how some language acts can be produced by a kind of violation of conversational maxims. Furthermore, we argue these acts have as a purpose to make the readers act according to a socially accepted behavior and it is done based on a reader’s consciousness. As a result, the analysis pointed out an imperative language activity through which performatives of indirect order are implicatured.

Keywords: speech acts, conversational maxims, implicatures.

Author Biographies

Morgana Fabiola Cambrussi, Docente da Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul - UFFS, Campus Chapecó, vinculada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística e ao Curso de Graduação em Letras.

Doutora e mestre em Linguística. Docente da Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul - UFFS, Campus Chapecó, vinculada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística e ao Curso de Graduação em Letras.

Tatiana Alves, Grupo Santa Rita, Unidade Chapecó-SC.

Docente do Grupo Santa Rita, Unidade Chapecó-SC. Graduada em Letras, com habilitação nas línguas portuguesa e espanhola. Desenvolve pesquisas sobre linguagem e performatividade.

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Published

2016-02-20

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 74: May/August - 2016/2

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