...Jonathan Culler The notion of the performative—an utterance that accomplishes the act that it designates—was proposed by the philosopher J. L. Austin to describe a type of utterance neglected by philosophers. This article follows the vicissitudes of the concept in literary and cultural theory...

...Sandy Petrey © 2000 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2000 Austin, J. L. 1975 How to Do Things with Words (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). Derrida, Jacques 1988 Limited Inc (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press). Gorman, David 1999 “The Use...

... with Literature: Blasphemous Speech Acts, Satanic Intentions, and the Uncommunicativeness of Verses,” Poetics Today 29 . 3 : 473 – 523 . Austin J. L. 1975 How to Do Things with Words . Edited by Urmson J. O. Sbisà Marina ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press ). Bal...

... Macbeth . © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 References Austin John L. 1956–57 “ A Plea for Excuses ”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 57 : 1 – 30 . 1962 How to Do Things with Words ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ). Baron-Cohen...

...: Atlantic Books). Armstrong, Paul B. 1990 Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). Attridge, Derek 2004 The Singularity of Literature (London: Routledge). Austin, J. L. 1962 How to Do Things with Words: The William...

... that seem to be exhausted in their performance—but which in fact wield what J. L. Austin called illocutionary force , perform some action , in making ongoing relationships possible, functional, and even fulfilling. I am, finally, also thinking about the question of time —as Fuchs's mother Lil does...

... in chapter  of his book are exempt from the main charges I made against the appropriations of speech-act theory by literary critics. Specifically I criticized literary theorists for obsessing over J. L. Austin’s exclusion of linguistic phenomena associated with literature from theoreti- cal...

... novels shows how fiction can serve as an aid in developing ToM mechanism (54), thereby echoing the insights of several cognitive literary scholars such as Lisa Zunshine (2006) and Michael Austin (2010). Kate Singer s essay also yields fruitful new findings. Borrowing neuro- scientist Antonio Damasio s...

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...H. Porter Abbott References Abbott H. Porter 2013 Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable ( Columbus, OH : Ohio State University Press ). Austin John L. 1962 How to Do Things with Words ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ). Caracciolo Marco 2016...

...). 1985a “From Notes Made in 1970–71,” in Speech Genres and Other Late Essays , translated by Vern W. McGee, 132 -58 (Austin: University of Texas Press). 1985b “Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences,” in Speech Genres and Other Late Essays , translated by Vern W. McGee, 159 -72 (Austin...

... by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 References Austin John L. 1975 [1962] How to Do Things with Words , 2nd ed. ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press ). 1990 Philosophical Papers , 3rd ed. ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ). Booth Wayne...

... Michael , translated by Liapunov Vadim . Austin : University of Texas Press . Bakhtin Mikhail (1935) 1981 “ Discourse in the Novel .” In The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays , edited by Holquist Michael , translated by Emerson Caryl , 259 – 423 . Austin...

... of the Ordinary (2017), literary critics have focused dis- proportionately on speech-act theory as developed by John L. Austin and extended by Stanley Cavell. It is perfectly understandable that literary scho- lars would be attracted to these debates about how words perform actions in the world. This narrow...