Essays on speech acts and other topics in pragmatics / [electronic resource]
by Marina Sbisá.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- e-book contains 327 pages :
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Front Matter Copyright Page Preface ExpandIntroduction View chapter Expand1 On Illocutionary Types View chapter Expand2 Speech Acts, Effects, and Responses View chapter Expand3 Ideology and the Persuasive Use of Presupposition View chapter Expand4 Intentions from the Other Side View chapter Expand5 Presupposition, Implicature, and Context in Text Understanding View chapter Expand6 Illocutionary Force and Degrees of Strength in Language Use View chapter Expand7 Speech Acts in Context View chapter Expand8 Cognition and Narrativity in Speech Act Sequences View chapter Expand9 Two Conceptions of Rationality in Grice’s Theory of Implicature View chapter Expand10 How to Read Austin View chapter Expand11 Uptake and Conventionality in Illocution View chapter Expand12 Illocution and Silencing View chapter Expand13 The Austinian Conception of Illocution and Its Implications for Value Judgments and Social Ontology View chapter Expand14 Varieties of Speech Act Norms View chapter Expand15 Ways to Be Concerned with Gender in Philosophy View chapter Expand16 Assertion among the Speech Acts View chapter Expand17 Illocution and Power Imbalance View chapter End Matter References Index
Abstract The author of the Essays that are republished here has worked on speech acts and other topics in pragmatics taking as her point of departure John L. Austin’s philosophy of language. The main focus of the volume is on illocution, including issues such as illocutionary act classification, the role of the hearer’s uptake and the interlocutor’s responses, the accommodation of speaker-related preconditions, and the relationship of illocution with knowledge and power. Austin’s way of distinguishing classes of illocutionary acts is defended and is shown to be useful in the analysis of discourse and conversation. The illocutionary act is described as bringing about effects on the deontic aspects of the relationship among the participants: such effects are defeasible, and conventional too, since their coming into being depends on the participants’ agreement. This agreement, in many informal situations at least, is made manifest by the response of the addressee or other participant to the speaker’s utterance and may be implicitly negotiated in conversation. Particular attention is paid to Verdictives and Exercitives. The collection also touches upon presupposition (considered in its communicative and persuasive functions), implicature and other aspects of Paul Grice’s philosophy, and philosophical approaches to gender issues, always in the light of the author’s view of speech as action.