Essays In Speech Act Theory

Author : Daniel Vanderveken,Susumu Kubo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027250944

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Essays in Speech Act Theory by Daniel Vanderveken,Susumu Kubo Pdf

Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as: - What do we mean? - How do we say it? and - How is it understood? in the broad context of universal, socio-cultural and psychological issues that bear on human communication. It presents an overview of current issues in speech act theory that are at the center of human and social sciences dealing with language, thought and action, building on John Searle's famous article 'How Performatives Work' (included in this book). The contributions by linguists, psychologists, computer scientists, and philosophers thus address issues of communication that are crucial in conversation analysis, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy, and a general understanding of how we communicate. The book is suitable for courses with an extensive bibliography for further reading and an Index.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1969-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052109626X

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Speech Acts by John R. Searle Pdf

'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How To Do Things With Words and one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades.'--Philosophical Quarterly

Author : Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0761820124

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Case Studies in Linguistic Pragmatics by Martti Juhani Rudanko Pdf

The six case studies presented here fall into three distinct groups. They examine the application of speech act theory to Shakespearean drama, consider 18th-century Congressional debates from the perspective of fallacy theory in informal logic, and focus more narrowly on applications of linguistic pragmatics. Specific topics include types and functions of unpleasant verbal behavior in Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Timon of Athens, promises and their contexts in Coriolanus, efforts to block the Bill of Rights in 1789, collocational coloring and electronic corpora, and contexts of phonologically null objects in object control structures in English and in Finnish. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Marina Sbisà
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192658005

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Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics by Marina Sbisà Pdf

This book collects seventeen essays published between 1984 and 2020, in which Marina Sbisà develops her distinctive approach to speech acts and related pragmatic phenomena. Drawing inspiration from the work of J. L. Austin, the essays examine the categories of speech act theory and apply these categories in the context of natural discourse and conversation, with the aim of providing an accurate analysis of how speech can be action. Sbisà devotes particular attention to normative aspects of language and language use: speech acts reshape the normative context in which they occur by assigning or unassigning deontic properties to relevant parties. Emphasis is placed on the normative aspect of linguistically mandated presuppositions as well as the rational grounds of implicature. The conventionalist view of speech acts developed here turns on the role of intersubjective agreement in deontic updating, in a framework that shifts focus from single utterances to discursive sequences and conversational interaction. This view challenges the main tenets of a Gricean intentionalist understanding of speech act performance, paving the way for a theory of speech actions centred on the normatively transformative power of illocution. Throughout the essays, examples and applications are given to illustrate how the view put forward contributes to understanding the social and political dimensions of linguistic activity, such as hidden persuasive strategies, power imbalances both within and outside the context of conversation, and the relevance of language and discourse to gender issues.

Author : S.L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134866984

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Foundations of Speech Act Theory by S.L. Tsohatzidis Pdf

Foundations of Speech Act Theory investigates the importance of speech act theory to the problem of meaning in linguistics and philosophy. The papers in this volume, written by respected philosophers and linguists, significantly advance standards of debate in this area. Beginning with a detailed introduction to the individual contributors, this collection demonstrates the relevance of speech acts to semantic theory. It includes essays unified by the assumption that current pragmatic theories are not well equipped to analyse speech acts satisfactorily, and concludes with five studies which assess the relevance of speech act theory to the understanding of philosophical problems outside the area of philosophy of language.

Author : Daniel Fogal,Daniel W. Harris,Matt Moss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191059025

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New Work on Speech Acts by Daniel Fogal,Daniel W. Harris,Matt Moss Pdf

Speech-act theory is the interdisciplinary study of the wide range of things we do with words. Originally stemming from the influential work of twentieth-century philosophers, including J. L. Austin and Paul Grice, recent years have seen a resurgence of work on the topic. On one hand, a new generation of linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists have made impressive progress toward reverse-engineering the psychological underpinnings that allow us to do so much with language. Meanwhile, speech-act theory has been used to enrich our understanding of pressing social issues that include freedom of speech, racial slurs, and the duplicity of political discourse. This volume presents fourteen new essays by many of the philosophers and linguists who have led this resurgence. The topics span a methodological range that includes formal semantics and pragmatics, foundational issues about the nature of linguistic representation, and work on a variety of forms of indirect and/or uncooperative speech that occupies the intersection of the philosophy of language, ethics, and political philosophy. Several of the contributions demonstrate the benefits of integrating the methodologies and perspectives of these literatures. The essays are framed by a comprehensive introductory survey of the contemporary literature written by the editors.

Author : Laura Caponetto,Paolo Labinaz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031225284

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Sbisà on Speech as Action by Laura Caponetto,Paolo Labinaz Pdf

The volume provides a thorough look into Marina Sbisà’s distinctive, Austinian-inspired approach to speech acts. By gathering original essays from a world-class lineup of philosophers of language, linguists, social epistemologists, action theorists, and communication scholars, the collection provides the first comprehensive critical treatment of Sbisa’s outstanding contribution to speech act theory.

Author : Sandy Petrey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134983735

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Speech Acts and Literary Theory by Sandy Petrey Pdf

This book, first published in 1990, combines an introduction to speech-act theory as developed by J. L. Austin with a survey of critical essays that have adapted Austin's thought for literary analysis. Speech-act theory emphasizes the social reality created when speakers agree that their language is performative - Austin's term for utterances like: "we hereby declare" or "I promise" that produce rather than describe what they name. In contrast to formal linguistics, speech-act theory insists on language's active prominence in the organization of collective life. The first section of the text concentrates on Austin's determination to situate language in society by demonstrating the social conventions manifest in language. The second and third parts of the book discuss literary critics' responses to speech-act theory's socialisation of language, which have both opened new understandings of textuality in general and stimulated new interpretations of individual works. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics and literary theory.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521313937

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Expression and Meaning by John R. Searle Pdf

A direct successor to Searle's Speech Acts (C.U.P. 1969), Expression and Meaning refines earlier analyses and extends speech-act theory to new areas including indirect and figurative discourse, metaphor and fiction.

Author : Armin Burkhardt
Publisher : Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition / Foundations of Communication and Cognition
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN : 3110113007

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Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions by Armin Burkhardt Pdf

Essays tracing the development of Searle's analytical theory of the speech act, from the conception of linguistic meaning in terms of action, via the analysis of the underlying intentional structure, to the problems of the relation between mind and brain. The 15 essays cover the historical roots of the speech act theory, semantics and pragmatics, intentionality, meaning, the theory of metaphor and fictional discourse, and philosophy of mind and cognitive science. They include sometimes quite pointed criticism, and were written in the expectation that Searle would contribute replies. But he withdrew his involvement before the volume was completed. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475376721

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Speech Acts by John R. Searle Pdf

Author : Savas L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107125902

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Interpreting J. L. Austin by Savas L. Tsohatzidis Pdf

This book presents fresh perspectives on the context and significance of Austin's philosophies of language, truth, perception, and knowledge.

Author : John Rogers Searle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1203859120

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Speech Acts by John Rogers Searle Pdf

Author : M. M. Bakhtin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780292782877

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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays by M. M. Bakhtin Pdf

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in Bakhtin's later years and thus they bear the stamp of a thinker who has accumulated a huge storehouse of factual material, to which he has devoted a lifetime of analysis, reflection, and reconsideration.

Author : Eric Shane Bryan,Alexander Vaughan Ames
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0866986103

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Literary Speech Acts of the Medieval North, Volume 552 by Eric Shane Bryan,Alexander Vaughan Ames Pdf

This volume brings together examinations of pragmatic meaning and proverbs of the Medieval North. Pragmatic meaning, which relies upon cultural and interpersonal context to go beyond the simple semantic and grammatical meaning of an utterance, has a fundamental connection with proverbs, which also communicate a deeper meaning than what is actually said. Essays in this volume explore this connection by examining the language of generosity, conversion, friendship, debate, dragon proverbs, and saints' lives. These essays are inspired by the works of Thomas A. Shippey, who has been a pioneer in the study of wisdom poetry and pragmatics in medieval literature.