The paper presents the analysis of the speech behaviour pattern of threat in German and Polish. In the first part of the paper, the general characteristics of the speech behaviour pattern of threat are given and their illocutions in terms of Natural Semantic Metalanguage are defined. Contrastive research is looked at from three different angles. First, from a structural point of view, main realization patterns of threat are described in different languages. Second, from the pragmatic point of view, it is considered whether and how the situations in which Germans and Poles use threats are different. And third, how to use threats in German and Polish is described using the method of the communicative-pragmatic field. The peculiarities of the field organization in these languages are discussed.