Abstract
The purpose of this article is to show the peculiarities of a criminal threat as a criminal speech act. Its first part is devoted to outlining the concept of criminal speech acts as ones the performance of which may entail criminal consequences. The second part deals with a threat understood as a speech act in the context of linguistics, and the third part discusses a criminal threat as a criminal speech act, taking into account its characteristics under Polish law. The issues addressed in the article are interdisciplinary in nature, combining issues from both linguistics as a human science and law as a social science. The linguistic approach to threat is based on cognitive pragmatic analysis.
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