Introducing performative pragmatics /

This user-friendly introduction to a new 'performative' methodology in linguistic pragmatics breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine. Drawing on a wide spectrum of research and theory from the past thirty years in particular, Douglas Robinson prese...

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Main Author: Robinson, Douglas, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Abingdon [England] : Routledge, 2006.
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; 1 Metaphors of language; Language as drama; Language as machine; A comparison of constative and performative linguistics; Key points; Discussion; Exercises; Suggestions for further reading; 2 Histories of linguistics; A history of constative linguistics; A history of performative linguistics; A history of pragmatics; Key points; Discussion; Exercises; Suggestions for further reading; Part II: Speech acts; 3 Performatives: words that transform reality. 
505 8 |a Austin's discovery of the performativePerformative magic; Performative theater; Performative identities; Performative gay identities; Key points; Discussion; Exercises; Suggestions for further reading; 4 Types of speech act; Locutions, illocutions, and perlocutions; Problems of definition; Scientific simplicity vs. dramatic complexity; Austin and Searle and company; Ballmer and Brennenstuhl; Invent your own!; Indirect speech acts; Sample analysis: Aristophanes' Frogs; Conversational indeterminacy; Key points; Discussion; Exercises; Suggestions for further reading; 5 Creating context. 
505 8 |a Context-creation as speech actErving Goffman's frame analysis; Metapragmatics; Types of context; Physical context; Body-language context; Verbal context; Cultural context; Group context; Personal context; Imagined context; Audience; Key points; Discussion; Exercises; Suggestions for further reading; 6 Taking turns; Turn-taking and the body; Conversational Analysis (CA); The Argument Clinic; Ethnomethodology; The local management of social interaction; Trust; The sequential architecture of intersubjectivity -- Creating meaning through conversational structuring acts; The third action. 
505 8 |a MisunderstandingKey points; Discussion; Exercises; Suggestions for further reading; Part III: Implicatures; 7 Manipulating maxims; Implying things; Expressive implicature; Being uncooperative and irrational; Violating maxims as performative interaction; Infringing maxims as performative interaction; How can we know?; Key points; Discussion; Exercises; Suggestions for further reading; 8 Divergent maxims; The maxims as locally managed; The maxims as cultural habits; The maxims as personal differences; Levels of local management; Pathological conversation; Divergent maxims and power; Key points. 
505 8 |a DiscussionExercises; Suggestions for further reading; 9 Conversational invocature; Allusion; Paraphrase; Anticipatory completion; Double-voicing; Key points; Discussion; Exercises; Suggestions for further reading; References; Index. 
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