PROMISE AND THREAT IN ENGLISH AND ARABICRELIGIOUS TEXTS

ALIWEY MOHAMMED, HASHIM; Prof.  RIYADH TARIQ KADHIM AL-AMEEDI, Asst.

	PROMISE AND THREAT IN ENGLISH AND ARABICRELIGIOUS TEXTS
for humanities sciences al qadisiya
Article 1, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 327-368 PDF (0 K)
Authors
HASHIM ALIWEY MOHAMMED; Asst. Prof. RIYADH TARIQ KADHIM AL-AMEEDI
Abstract
The speech act of threatening may be uttered for many reasons, some of which involve intention or capacity to commit a violent act or a true threat. Some lexicographers such as Collins (1987:123), Pearsal (1998:1930) and Hornby (2000:1408) define threat as a declaration of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done. Some legislators of civil law, Fein et al, (1995:1), suggest that a statement is a true threat when a reasonable person making the statement in context would foresee that such a statement would be interpreted by those to whom it is communicated as a serious expression of an intent to bodily harm or assault. They believe that threat of violence may arise from feelings or ideas that range from one person to another. Added to this, speech may be put in the realm of threatening when the goal of the speech is to end a legal activity through violence with attempt to injure or intimidate (ibid).

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