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Cuadernos de Lingüística Hispánica
Print version ISSN 0121-053X
Abstract
BENITEZ PEREZ, LUIS ARMANDO. Manifestations of illocutionary force in written press. Cuad. linguist. hisp. [online]. 2014, n.23, pp.69-86. ISSN 0121-053X.
The objective of this study was to analyze the type of discursive actions used in statements from judicial news texts. In order to achieve that, a corpus of 131 statements was analyzed. These statements were used as testimonies from military sources and quoted during 2011 in the newspapers: La Nación, from the department of Huila and El Líder, from the department of Caquetá. Using the typology of speech-acts proposed by John Austin, it was possible to conclude that about 34% of the statements are part of a speech act with a different purpose than describing. This represents a clear form of insertion of action over description, which is supposed to be the main function of informing.
Keywords : Statement; speech-act; illocutionary force; pragmatic.