Publications

Publication details [#5606]

Klein, Norbert. 1981. Hybride Sprechakte: 'warnen', 'drohen' und 'erpressen'. In Hindelang, Götz and Werner Zillig, eds. Sprache: Verstehen und Handeln: Akten des 15. linguistischen Kolloquiums, Münster 1980, Band 2. Niemeyer. pp. 227–236.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

German

Keywords

blackmailing | hybrid speech act | threatening | warning

Language as a subject

English | German

Annotation

Description of three types of 'hybrid' speech acts, namely: 'warning', 'threatening' and 'blackmailing'. The utterances which can be used to perform these speech act types in English and German are compared.