https://doi.org/10.31261/FL.2023.11.2.03
The purpose of this article is to analyze the rulings of Polish criminal courts on the crime of criminal verbal threat. The concept of linguistic or verbal offenses and their typologies having been outlined theoretically in the author’s other publications, this article presents a summary of the research. The analysis of Polish jurisprudence has been conducted with a view to finding which lexical units fulfill the criteria of a criminal threat criminalized in Article 190 § 1 of the Criminal Code, which do not and for what reasons. The research field has been narrowed to rulings referring to the threat of murder as prototypical from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. In addition, the analysis is embedded in contemporary linguistics, and considers the rulings issued by Polish criminal courts in the decade 2012 to 2022 inclusive. The research results thus obtained are discussed from a pragmatic-cognitive perspective.
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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2023)
Published: 2023-12-29
10.31261/FL
Język Polski
English