Speech Acts in Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speech Acts in Literature write by Joseph Hillis Miller. This book was released on 2001. Speech Acts in Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Speech Acts and Literary Theory
Speech Acts and Literary Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speech Acts and Literary Theory write by Sandy Petrey. This book was released on 2016-08-19. Speech Acts and Literary Theory available 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.
Speech Acts
Speech Acts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speech Acts write by John R. Searle. This book was released on 1969-01-02. Speech Acts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. '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
Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics
Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics write by John Searle. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology. Every technical term is an expression of the assumptions and theoretical presuppositions of its users; and in this introduction, we want to clarify some of the issues that have surrounded the assumptions behind the use of the two terms "speech acts" and "pragmatics". The notion of a speech act is fairly well understood. The theory of speech acts starts with the assumption that the minimal unit of human communica tion is not a sentence or other expression, but rather the performance of certain kinds of acts, such as making statements, asking questions, giving orders, describing, explaining, apologizing, thanking, congratulating, etc. Characteristically, a speaker performs one or more of these acts by uttering a sentence or sentences; but the act itself is not to be confused with a sentence or other expression uttered in its performance. Such types of acts as those exemplified above are called, following Austin, illocutionary acts, and they are standardly contrasted in the literature with certain other types of acts such as perlocutionary acts and propositional acts. Perlocutionary acts have to do with those effects which our utterances have on hearers which go beyond the hearer's understanding of the utterance. Such acts as convincing, persuading, annoying, amusing, and frightening are all cases of perlocutionary acts.
Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse
Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse write by Mary Louise Pratt. This book was released on 1977. Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
