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Performative Linguistics: Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words

Performative Linguistics: Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words

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Gifts & Stationery GeneralLinguistics

ISBN10: 0415753996
ISBN13: 9780415753999
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 1 2002
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 those speech situations. Robinson then tests his hypothesis on the act of translation.

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