The Evaluation of the Metalinguistic Facts through the Speech Verbs in Czech Language

Abstract

The colloquial Czech language shows a broad group of speech act verbs which contain a “meta-linguistic” (negative) value-judgements. As the colloquial speech act verbs in Czech as their equivalents in Spanish are integrated in a lexical domain which describes all possible inappropriate speech acts or inappropriate manners of speaking. My intention with this paper is to defend the study of the negative evaluation of the speech acts, speaker and the speech activity in general. We can determine a taxonomy of the lexemes which reflect the negative evaluation of the speech acts through the different transgressions of the communicative premises or rules. This perspective invites us to re-explain the speech act theory.