1st Edition
Performative Linguistics Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words
By Douglas Robinson
Copyright 2002
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this book, Douglas Robinson introduces a new distinction between 'constative' and 'performative' linguistics, arguing that Austin's distinction can be used to understand linguistic methodologies. Constative linguistics, Robinson suggests, includes methodologies aimed at 'freezing' language as an abstract sign system, while performative linguistics explores how language is used or 'performed' in... Read more
Part 1 Performatives; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Constative and performative linguistics; Chapter 3 Translatorial performatives; Part 2 Iterations (the Performative Back-Story); Chapter 4 Iterability; Chapter 5 Somatic Markers; Chapter 6 The translator’s habitus; Chapter 7 Double-voicing; Part 3 Implicatures (performative uptake); Chapter 8 Conversational Implicature; Chapter 9 Translation as ideological implicature; Chapter 10 Il-, per-, and metalocutionary implicature; Chapter 11 Intendants and interpretants; Chapter 12 Conventional implicature and language change; Chapter 13 Conversational invocature; Chapter 14 Metalocutionary implicature and cross-cultural misunderstandings; Conclusion;
Biography
Douglas Robinson is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, USA.
