Case study: threat or warning?
Sample Instructor · 7 October 2026 · 18 minutes Sample data
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Summary
Debt collection messages often sit on the border between a legitimate warning and a threat. This video sets out the conditions for the speech act of threatening and applies them, sentence by sentence, to an invented message sequence in Indonesian. Sample content: the video has not been uploaded; the analysed text is invented.
Visualisations
- 8 Jan 2024
Money lentVerbal agreement, nothing in writing. - 12 Feb 2024
First repayment promise missed - 4 Mar 2024
Debt collection messages sentSeven messages over two days. - 11 Mar 2024
Recipient files a report - 20 Jun 2024
First-instance judgment
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