Linguistic Strategies of Provocative Acts in Vetala Tales
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This article aims to analyze the linguistic strategies of provocative speech acts in Vetala Tales. The primary data consist of 25 episodes from the Vetala Tales translated directly from Sanskrit. Based on Searle’s (1969) felicity conditions, a total of 31 utterances classified as provocative speech acts were identified and subsequently analyzed for their linguistic strategies. The findings reveal nine strategies: 1) questioning, 2) intimidating, 3) requesting, 4) reasoning, 5) argumenting, 6) opining, 7) commanding, 8) remanding, and 9) praising. The analysis further demonstrates that these nine strategies are interrelated. Specifically, requesting, praising, intimidating, and remanding occur only in combination with questioning. Opining and reasoning appear exclusively alongside argumenting, whereas commanding is found in association with both questioning and argumenting. Such co-occurrences do not merely reinforce the primary strategies, but also reflect politeness as a cultural norm central to both Thai and Indian societies.
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