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This book collects seventeen essays published between 1984 and 2020, in which Marina Sbisà develops her distinctive approach to speech acts and related pragmatic phenomena. The essays examine the categories of speech act theory with the aim of providing an accurate analysis of how speech can be action.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: On Illocutionary Types
- 2: Speech Acts, Effects, and Responses
- 3: Ideology and the Persuasive Use of Presupposition
- 4: Intentions from the Other Side
- 5: Presupposition, Implicature, and Context in Text Understanding
- 6: Illocutionary Force and Degrees of Strength in Language Use
- 7: Speech Acts in Context
- 8: Cognition and Narrativity in Speech Act Sequences
- 9: Two Conceptions of Rationality in Grice's Theory of Implicature
- 10: How to Read Austin
- 11: Uptake and Conventionality in Illocution
- 12: Illocution and Silencing
- 13: The Austinian Conception of Illocution and its Implications for Value Judgments and Social Ontology
- 14: Varieties of Speech Act Norms
- 15: Ways to Be Concerned with Gender in Philosophy
- 16: Assertion among the Speech Acts
- 17: Illocution and Power Imbalance
About the author
Marina Sbisà is Senior Scholar at the University of Trieste. She was awarded her Laurea in Philosophy at the University of Trieste in 1971, and was previously Researcher in Philosophy and Professor in Philosophy of Language at the same university, until retiring in 2018. She has held visiting positions Fuji Women's University, the University of Amiens and CURAPP-CNRS, Sczeczin, and Magdalen College and New College, Oxford. She is a member of the Consultation Board of the International Pragmatics Association and President of the Society for Women in Philosophy Italy.
Summary
This book collects seventeen essays published between 1984 and 2020, in which Marina Sbisà develops her distinctive approach to speech acts and related pragmatic phenomena. The essays examine the categories of speech act theory with the aim of providing an accurate analysis of how speech can be action.
