From Utterances to Speech Acts

ISBN-13: 9781107009769 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 210 str.

Mikhail Kissine

Opis

This is naturalistic theory of when, how and why our utterances are interpreted as speech acts: assertions, orders or promises.

Recenzje

'… an original, informed and compelling new contribution to the literature on the nature of speech acts. Kissine provides good reasons to put aside widely accepted Gricean accounts in terms of complex intentions, in part based on up-to-date empirical data. He provides an alternative account, on which speech acts constitutively express reasons (to believe or to act), and develops detailed illustrative accounts of constative, directive and commissive speech acts - paradigmatically including, respectively, assertions, orders and promises. Kissine convincingly argues that his account is compatible with the empirical results that prove problematic for Gricean views, and in general with a naturalistic stance … includes many original conceptual proposals … Many of the book's proposals deserve to be taken up and examined further much more in depth by interested researchers. I believe the book will thus deeply influence the course of forthcoming research on its topics.' Manuel García-Carpintero, LOGOS, University of Barcelona

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Austin's distinctions revisited; 2. Intentional states and locutionary acts; 3. Constative speech acts; 4. Directive speech acts; 5. Speech acts, autism spectrum disorders and typical development; 6. Commissive speech acts; Conclusion.