EIRP Proceedings, Vol 10 (2015)

Abstract

The hypothesis from which we start of is that of political discourse, in its quality of practical discourse in order to be analyzed through the theory of speech acts, dominated by the use theory rule of meaning, which refers to the context of communication and human behavior. The theory of speech acts rise the issue of significance dependence, not the mere use of language, but the acting context of utterance, that the utterance fact, the latter not being a simple statement of something. J. L. Austin makes a first distinction between constitutive statements, which only say something, establishing a state of things, the truth of a fact and the performative utterances which are the performance of an action. Along with the locutionary act which manifests as utterance, as formulating sentences, the perlocutionary act, produced by the fact of having to say something, followed by the effects on a locutionary, either on the speakers, existing the illocutionary act, which is to commit something by enunciation, revealing a certain value and “force”: information, promise, demand, order, request, warning, advice, etc. By extending the characteristics of speech acts at the level of political discourse, we can say that it manifests itself as an entity resulting from the identical meaning of producing the statements that composes it, of the illocutionary force marking the enunciation and the effects by which it is achieved a certain performance.