METONIMIAS DE ACTOS DE HABLA Y PROTOTIPICIDAD. UNA ALTERNATIVA AL MODELO DE LITERALIDAD ILOCUTIVA DE SEARLE

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to show that Thornburg and Panther's proposition to analyze the indirect illocutionary meaning as the result of the metonymic function of the components of a scenic Idealized Cognitive Model (ICM) of speech-acts can also explain illocutionary prototypicality effects incorporating other pragmatictype models. The prototipicity notion, developed in the context of Cognitive Semantics, is based on the weak conception of literality as a continuum through which diverse linguistic expressions are situated in relation to an ICM. The gradual force notion, therefore, opposes to the literal illocutionary force hypothesis in Searle's Speech Act Theory, which analyzes the pragmatic meaning in terms of correspondence between the conditions of the propositional content and the illocutionary force.