@article{Wójcicka_2018, title={Word in prose texts of folklore in the light of speech act theories (outline of the issues)}, volume={61}, url={https://apcz.umk.pl/LL/article/view/LL.6.2017.001}, DOI={10.12775/LL.6.2017.001}, abstractNote={<p>The article concerns a particular function of word in folk culture, which results from word features presented in the first part of the text. These are: opacity, materiality, spatiality,  sacredness, self-agency, magicality, rituality and tabooism. The second part of the article is dedicated to an analysis of speech acts in selected, mainly XIX century prose texts of folklore.  The subject of the analysis are illocutionary and perlocutionary aspects as well as associated with them so-called constitutive and obligative speech acts in collected texts of legends, religious folk tales and magic fables. The above mentioned speech acts have various plot and structural functions: they create a new text reality and a hero as well as they move a story forward determining the text climax(mainly commissives) connected with the shown by W. Propp function defined as the hero’s attempt. Certainly, the outlined in the article method of analyzing folklore texts in the light of speech act theories can be extended to genealogical and morphological analyses.</p>}, number={6}, journal={Literatura Ludowa. Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture}, author={Wójcicka, Marta}, year={2018}, month={May}, pages={3–12} }