Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue
This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research. Relevance theory (RT) since its introduction (Sperber & Wilson 1986/1995) has consistently rejected much of speech ac...
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| description | This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research. Relevance theory (RT) since its introduction (Sperber & Wilson 1986/1995) has consistently rejected much of speech act-theoretic thinking, explicitly questioning its having a central position in pragmatics. Using the notion of “the speech act”, RT seems to ignore most of speech act-theoretic apparatus. However, despite the superficial divergence between the two frameworks, the advancements within RT, as developed especially by Deirdre Wilson, and her co-researchers over the years, are convergent with selected thoughts in the Austinian thought. The paper comments on selected points which bring the two linguistics approaches together. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a6b9458dd93d4f499c7a9662c90b3ed22025-01-03T14:52:06ZengLodz University PressResearch in Language1731-75332023-12-0121215917410.18778/1731-7533.21.2.0421567Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a DialogueIwona Witczak-Plisiecka0University of Łódź This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research. Relevance theory (RT) since its introduction (Sperber & Wilson 1986/1995) has consistently rejected much of speech act-theoretic thinking, explicitly questioning its having a central position in pragmatics. Using the notion of “the speech act”, RT seems to ignore most of speech act-theoretic apparatus. However, despite the superficial divergence between the two frameworks, the advancements within RT, as developed especially by Deirdre Wilson, and her co-researchers over the years, are convergent with selected thoughts in the Austinian thought. The paper comments on selected points which bring the two linguistics approaches together.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/research/article/view/21575speech act theoryrelevance theorycognitive linguisticshateoffensive language |
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| title | Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue |
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| topic | speech act theory relevance theory cognitive linguistics hate offensive language |
| url | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/research/article/view/21575 |
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