THE ILLOCUTIONARY ACT AND THE POWER OF THE MESSAGE

Abstract

This study is circumscibed to the pragmatics of communication. The thesis under investigation is whether the message is a practice of power. It is found that between the communicators there is an inevitable and always denied war for control of communication. The fight to impose meanings is fought on all available channels. Predominantly, the conflagration of communication is one of words. The imposed illocutionary acts contribute to the power of the message. The conclusion reached is that the message is a matter of power

Keywords

• communication
• communication channel
• language acts
• speech acts
• children