The semantic categories of threats and warnings and their fundamental features

Żanna Starowa

Żanna Starowa - Instytut Problemów Radykalizmów, Kijów

Natalia Masalska

Natalia Masalska - Szkoła średnia nr 31, Grodno

Abstract

The article is a detailed analysis of communicative discourses expressing threat or warning in the Russian and German language, which allowed to determine significant features of these semantic categories, e.g. prioritization/non-prioritization of the addressee, compulsoriness/non-compulsoriness of communicated actions for the participants of a communicative discourse, etc. Moreover, the analysis has revealed that in utterances expressing threat or warning we may distinguish such semantic elements as prejudice (against something), ban, promise and command.