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In a paper critical of J.L. Austin's theory of speech acts, as presented in HOW TO DO THINS WITH WORDS, Jacques Derrida argues that the indeterminacy of linguistic context renders the classical notion of "communication"--the transmission of intended meaning through language--untenable. Despite efforts to the contrary, most notably those of John Searle, Derrida's account of the structure of teh locutionary act demonstrates that our utterances and written texts, taken as complex linguistic signs, are structurally incapable of communicating. This essay offers an alternative approach to the problem by first offering an account of Austin's theory of action and then reinterpreting speech act theory in terms of the component actions. The result is a position which contends that Austin's use of standard cases and multiple axes of modification to describe intentional actions provides a functional method for reconstructing communication through speech acts
International Journal of Philosophical Studies
The Intentionality of Speech Acts: A Confrontation between Ordinary Language Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Deconstruction?2015 •
Dialogue and Universalism, 1, 2013, 129-142.
Three Approaches to the Study of Speech Acts (Dialogue and Universalism 1, 2013, 129-142).2013 •
The paper reconstructs and discusses three different approaches to the study of speech acts: (i) the intentionalist approach, according to which most illocutionary acts are to be analysed as utterances made with the Gricean communicative intentions, (ii) the institutionalist approach, which is based on the idea of illocutions as institutional acts constituted by systems of collectively accepted rules, and (iii) the interactionalist approach, the main tenet of which is that performing illocutionary acts consists in making conventional moves in accordance with patterns of social interaction. It is claimed that, first, each of the discussed approaches presupposes a different account of the nature and structure of illocutionary acts, and, second, all those approaches result from one-sided interpretations of Austin’s conception of verbal action. The first part of the paper reconstructs Austin's views on the functions and effects of felicitous illocutionary acts. The second part reconstructs and considers three different research developments in the post-Austinian speech act theory—the intentionalist approach, the institutionalist approach, and the interactionalist approach.
2014 •
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
Staging The Life-World: Habermas and The Recuperation of Austin's Speech Act Theory1993 •
Global Journal of Research in Humanities & Cultural Studies
Perspectives on Speech Acts2023 •
Language is a tool for communication among humans. A study of speech act is essentially immersed in language use and interpretation. Participants of discourse convey their feelings, ideas and messages by skillfully using language according to contexts and situations. In this regard, speech acts are used to inform, persuade, describe and perform other intentional acts. This paper examines speech acts in terms of critical perspectives in the literature. After the pioneering work of Austin (cf. 1962), the study of “speech acts as actions” became popularized. This development informed classical and contemporary insights in the literature, resulting in speech act theories and taxonomies such as those of Searle (1969), Grice (1975), Bach and Harnish (1979), Adgbija (1982), Mey (2001), among others. This study concludes that speech acts are rule-governed, context-driven, universal and establish the link between pragmatics and semantics.
Augustinian: A Journal for Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, and Education., Vol. 19, Issue #1, pp. 35-45
Speech Act Theory: From Austin to Searle2018 •
The speech act theory is one of the rigorous attempts to systematically explain the workings of language. It is not only widely influential in the philosophy of language, but in the areas of linguistics and communication as well. This essay traces the development of this theory from J. L. Austin's first formulation of the theory to John Searle's further systematization and grounding of it. The essay first situates the theory in the general approaches to the philosophy of language. After which, it explicates the main features of the theory as initially articulated by Austin and further improved by Searle. Among the innovations introduced by Searle, the essay highlights the following: the distinction between the utterance and propositional acts, the distinction between the effects of illocutionary acts and those of perlocutionary acts, a consistent set of criteria for classifying speech acts, and the grounding of speech acts in terms of rules and facts.
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