‘A promise is a promise… but what about threats?’: an English-Spanish contrastive analysis of the verbs promise-prometer and threaten-amenazar
The aim of this paper is to investigate ‘I promise’ and its counterpart in (Peninsular) Spanish prometo. After briefly revisiting the theoretical debate on performativity and performative verbs, the paper adopts a corpus-based approach to quantify the main uses of ‘I promise’ in both languages. Thi...
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Vilnius University
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Kalbotyra |
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| Online Access: | http://www.journals.vu.lt/kalbotyra/article/view/11191 |