Conditions de satisfaction, maximes conversationnelles et règles de politesse ou comment faire échouer un acte de langage
Conditions of satisfaction, conversational maxims and politeness rules or how to make a failure out of a speech act

Author(s): Carmen-Ștefania Stoean
Subject(s): Pragmatics, French Literature, Cultural Essay, Philology
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: speech acts; conditions of satisfaction; failure; impoliteness; conversational maxims; transgression;
Summary/Abstract: We are looking at a certain type of directive speech acts, namely the failed speech acts. These are acts that aren’t able to reach their purpose or, if they do, they do it insufficiently. We aim at identifying the parameters that make their functioning problematic or completely prevent them from realization. Our research has a threefold development: Firstly, we describe the systems of rules following which illocutionary acts are performed, knowing that their failure derives, in principle, from the non-compliance to one or more rules of the same system or of different system of rules. Secondly, we identify the different failed speech acts and classify them based on the source of their failure (the rule / rules that were not obeyed). Finally, in the last part of our research, we analyze the consequences of noncompliance with the rules on the development and the output of the verbal exchanges where the selected speech acts are performed. Our presentation only covers the first two parts of the presentation.

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