Speech Acts and Literary Theory
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 langu…
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- ISBN: 978-1-134-98366-7
- EAN: 9781134983667
- Produktnummer: 20563931
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 186 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 219'033 KB
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