Pragmatèmes de l’affichage informatif : acte illocutionnaire et analyse contrastive français-espagnol

The decoding of pragmatemes varies not only according to their linguistic form but also according to extralinguistic issues. The pragmatic aspects of pragmatemes provide the information required to decode the illocutionary intention of the sender and allow for the performative effect on the receiver. The objective of this study is to verify the primary illocutionary act of 40 informative affixed pragmatemes and to verify whether two Romance languages, French and Spanish, follow a similar use of conveying the sender’s illocutionary intention. This article follows the Speech Act Theory and offers a pragmatic and a contrastive analysis of informative pragmatemes such as Chien méchant, in French, or Perro peligroso, in Spanish. The analysis of the linguistic form and the extralinguistic information provided by the pragmatemes enables to identify two illocutionary acts : representative and directive acts. The French-Spanish comparison reveals that even if informative pragmatemes seem to be similar, the cultural references may not coincide in both languages.