Co-authors: Jane Whitaker and Rebecca Weeks. This book reveals an experimental process of how Drawing and Kickboxing come together artistically and philosophically. Executed as a performance in a public gallery over a period of six days in 2009 at the exchange Gallery Penzance. Cornwall. As a participatory event it included artists, students, school students of all ages and a great number of the general public. As a record and report it encompasses areas of the mind and body in thinking more deeply and philosophically about our ideas of perception and what this might mean in the contemporary...

This volume provides extensive critical information about current discussions in the study of speech actions. Its central reference point is classic speech act theory, but attention is also paid to nonstandard developments and other approaches that study speech as action. The first part of the volume deals with main concepts, methodological issues and phenomena common to different kinds of speech action. The second part deals with specific kinds of speech actions, including types of illocutionary acts and some discourse and conversational phenomena.

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Old Habits and Other Stories Deluxe Edition is a collection of fourteen short stories that will hopefully terrorize you, tantalize you, and maybe even tickle your funny bone.