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Performative Linguistics: Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words
Contributor(s): Robinson, Douglas (Author)
ISBN: 0415753996     ISBN-13: 9780415753999
Publisher: Routledge
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2002
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- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General
Dewey: 418.020
Physical Information: 272 pages
 
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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 those speech situations. Robinson then tests his hypothesis on the act of translation.
Drawing on a range of language scholars and theorists, Performative Linguistics consolidates the many disparate action-approaches to language into a new paradigm for the study of language.