Resumo

GUTIERREZ-RIVAS, Carolina. Egocentric and Altrocentric Speech Acts and their Relationship with Race and Social Class: An Example in Venezuelan Literature. Folios [online]. 2018, n.47, pp.19-36. ISSN 0123-4870.

Literary works are generators of knowledge about language since they can provide valuable data on linguistic activity at all levels, including the discourse-pragmatic one. Authors such as Brown and Gilman (1989), Gancedo Ruiz (2016), Haverkate (2001) and Zamora (2014), have analyzed fictional narrative texts. This is because such material is an accessible and reliable source of linguistic information as compared to oral language, where it proves to be impractical, in terms of the time required to observe certain linguistic patterns. The corpus of this research study is the Venezuelan novel Ana Isabel, una niña decente, by Antonia Palacios (1949). The analysis focuses on sociopragmatic aspects, such as the manifestation of race and social class in performative and directive speech acts. Politeness Theory (Brown & Levinson, 1987) is also applied, along with Haverkate's (2001) concepts of egocentric and altrocentric speech acts. Also, the role of mitigation is examined in both cases. The analysis reveals that, for the most part, the speech acts found in the novel are egocentric without mitigation, which contradicts Haverkate's idea of mitigation as a companion to the egocentric speech act.

Palavras-chave : Speech acts; egocentric; altrocentric; mitigation; face.

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