Szantaż emocjonalny w języku polskim i czeskim. Ujęcie pragmalingwistyczne
Emotional blackmail in Polish and Czech. A pragmalinguistic point of view

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt of a pragmatic analysis of communication behaviours such as emotional blackmail in the Polish and Czech languages. Emotional blackmail means manipulation of the interlocutor while taking advantage of the emotions that connect sender and receiver. The analysis concerns four communication strategies: ‘Prosecutor’, ‘Flagellator’, ‘Martyr’ and ‘Tempter’. The article also presents the ways to implement particular strategies. They are based on determined speech acts from the group of directives, commissives, emotives and illocutions of mixed character, as well as on applying interactive operators and breaking conversational maxims.

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