Non-verb expressions as performative utterances: prepositional constructions and emphatic appeals

Abstract

This study reviews the characterization of the performative speech act, focusing in those who do not present sentence structure. We'll look at the non-verbal expressions that possess the characteristics proper performative: prepositional constructions headed by core 'locatives', 'summing up' and 'subtractive' and emphatic appeals. In this sense, we can determine the value of the prepositions that introduce phrases equivalent to predicates with performative sense. On the other hand, distinguishes two modes to set forth in relation to the discourtesy and flattery: insults and praise. These expressions will be described from a grammatical and prosodic perspective, so that will be given to the capacity of this type of expressions, from play conventionals performatives speech acts and to orient the accent and the melodic inflection to the cognitive and emotional processing of the reality of the individual receiver.