Verbe dicendi desemnând dezvăluirea de informații (confesiunea și divulgarea) în limba română

VERBS OF SAYING THAT DESIGNATE REVEALING INFORMATION IN ROMANIAN (CONFESSION AND DISCLOSURE) Abstract The present paper aims at analysing a particular subclass of Romanian verbs of saying: verbs which designate the revealing of (personal) secrets or previously unknown information. The subclass divides in two groups, corresponding to two major forms of revealing information: confession (as in Rom. a se confesa – Engl. to confess) and disclosure (as in Rom. a divulga – Engl. to disclose, to divulge). The act of confession and disclosure has various particularities: confession as reveling personal information or thoughts directed regularly to a singular addressee (e.g. Rom. a se confesa, a se destăinui, a dezvălui, a mărturisi) versus confession (in church) as performing an act of Christian duty, addresed to a priest (Rom. a se spovedi, a se mărturisi); disclosure or divulging may relate to a different person, as revealing secret information (usually considered “wrong”) about someone else to a person or to an audience (e.g. Rom. a deconspira, a demasca, a denunța, a divulga, a pârî); it also may be related to oneself, as an act of voluntary (Rom. a recunoaşte) or involuntary (Rom. a se scăpa) form of revealing personal information. Quite interesting are some verbs which can be used methaphorically to express the act of revealing information: e.g. Rom. a borî, a cânta, a ciripi, a cloncăni, a guița, a lătra, a piui, a scuipa, a sifona, a trâmbiţa, a turna, a vărsa.