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Author | : Mary Louise Pratt |
Publisher | : Midland Books |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Mary Louise Pratt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Sandy Petrey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-08-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134983735 |
Download Speech Acts and Literary Theory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Joseph Hillis Miller |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804742162 |
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This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words, repeatedly expels literature from the domain of felicitous speech acts, literature is an indispensable presence within Austin's book. It contains many literary references but also uses as essential tools literary devices of its own: imaginary stories that serve as examples and imaginary dialogues that forestall potential objections. How to Do Things with Words is not the triumphant establishment of a fully elaborated theory of speech acts, but the story of a failure to do that, the story of what Austin calls a "bogging down." After an introductory chapter that explores Austin's book in detail, the two following chapters show how Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man in different ways challenge Austin's speech act theory generally and his expulsion of literature specifically. Derrida shows that literature cannot be expelled from speech actsrather that what he calls "iterability" means that any speech act may be literature. De Man asserts that speech act theory involves a radical dissociation between the cognitive and positing dimensions of language, what Austin calls language's "constative" and "performative" aspects. Both Derrida and de Man elaborate new speech act theories that form the basis of new notions of responsible and effective politico-ethical decision and action. The fourth chapter explores the role of strong emotion in effective speech acts through a discussion of passages in Derrida, Wittgenstein, and Austin. The final chapter demonstrates, through close readings of three passages in Proust, the way speech act theory can be employed in an illuminating way in the accurate reading of literary works.
Author | : Mary Louise Pratt |
Publisher | : Midland Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Irene Rima Makaryk |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780802068606 |
Download Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of thought exist, and sometimes conflict, within it. I.R. Makaryk has compiled a welcome guide to the field. Accessible and jargon-free, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory provides lucid, concise explanations of myriad approaches to literature that have arisen over the past forty years. Some 170 scholars from around the world have contributed their expertise to this volume. Their work is organized into three parts. In Part I, forty evaluative essays examine the historical and cultural context out of which new schools of and approaches to literature arose. The essays also discuss the uses and limitations of the various schools, and the key issues they address. Part II focuses on individual theorists. It provides a more detailed picture of the network of scholars not always easily pigeonholed into the categories of Part I. This second section analyses the individual achievements, as well as the influence, of specific scholars, and places them in a larger critical context. Part III deals with the vocabulary of literary theory. It identifies significant, complex terms, places them in context, and explains their origins and use. Accessibility is a key feature of the work. By avoiding jargon, providing mini-bibliographies, and cross-referencing throughout, Makaryk has provided an indispensable tool for literary theorists and historians and for all scholars and students of contemporary criticism and culture.
Author | : Athelstan Suresh Canagarajah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Speech acts (Linguistics) |
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Author | : David A. Evans |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2016-11-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1315401762 |
Download Situations and Speech Acts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1985, this book aims to develop an approach to speech acts that has the virtue of being straight-forward, explicit, formal and flexible enough to accommodate many of the more general problems of interactive verbal communication. The first chapter introduces situation semantics with the second addressing the assumptions implied by the problem of representing speaker intentionality. The third chapter presents a streamlined theory of speech acts and the fourth tests the predictions of the theory in several hypothetical discourse situations. A summary and suggestions for further research is provided in chapter five, and appendices facilitate reference to key concepts.
Author | : Daniel Vanderveken |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027250940 |
Download Essays in Speech Act Theory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Joseph Hillis Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Conduct of life in literature |
ISBN | : 9780823235391 |
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The work of a master critic, this book draws on speech act theory, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in Henry James's fiction. The author shows that three modes of speech act occur in James's novels and the action of each work is brought about by its own idiosyncratic repertoire.