 | Stephen C. Levinson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1983 - 442 pages
...the later Wittgenstein's emphasis on language usage and language-games and Austin's insistence that "the total speech act in the total speech situation...phenomenon which, in the last resort, we are engaged in elucidating" (1962: 147). Nevertheless Austin appears to have been largely unaware of, and probably... | |
 | Michael Stubbs - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1983 - 298 pages
...view of both core linguistics and sociolinguistics, Austin's (1962: 147) moral has considerable force: The total speech act in the total speech situation...phenomenon which, in the last resort, we are engaged in elucidating' (emphasis in original). However, there are various kinds of idealization which are necessary... | |
 | K. Mulligan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1987 - 366 pages
...first half of this contrast that Austin is alluding in the well-known words: "The total speech-act in the total speech situation is the only actual phenomenon which, in the last resort, acceptance of a promise GS 205, PdR 56, trans. 29 command GS 189ff., 250, 301; PdR 38ff., 110, 171;... | |
 | Kathryn Carter, Mick Presnell - Psychology - 1994 - 284 pages
...simplicity"; without a context to appeal to, the felicity of speech acts cannot be readily judged: "The total speech act in the total speech situation...phenomenon which, in the last resort, we are engaged in elucidating" (p. 148). In this standard account, then, writing has several qualities that distinguish... | |
 | Robert Wess - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 288 pages
...speech act emerges as the architectonic category. Language is performative before it is anything else: "The total speech act in the total speech situation...phenomenon which, in the last resort, we are engaged in elucidating."10 The performative is the whole pie, not a mere piece. The polemical edge in Austin's... | |
 | Jonathan Potter - Psychology - 1996 - 268 pages
...focuses attention on statements as actions performed in settings with particular outcomes. As he put it 'the total speech act in the total speech situation...phenomenon which, in the last resort, we are engaged in elucidating' (1962: 148). It would be most unfair to criticize Austin for not doing something that... | |
 | Daniel Jorques Jiménez - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 284 pages
...valoración satisfactoria acerca de la función de lo perlocucional en el seno del proceso interactivo: "The total speech act in the total speech situation is the only actual phenomenon we are engaged in elucidating" (Austin, op. di. : 147 [la cursiva es del autor]). La gramática del... | |
 | Donald Preziosi - Art - 1998 - 610 pages
...linguistics (among other places). Austin's remark concerning speech act theory is a case in point: 'The total speech act in the total speech situation...phenomenon which, in the last resort, we are engaged in elucidating.'19 Semiotics' objection to such an enterprise focuses primarily on the idea of mastering... | |
 | Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist - Philosophy - 1998 - 840 pages
...viz. (1 ) the true/false fetish, (2) the value/fact fetish" (p. 150). 6. He says, for example, that "The total speech act in the total speech situation...phenomenon which, in the last resort, we are engaged in elucidating" (p. 147). 7. Which occasionally requires Austin to reintroduce the criterion of truth... | |
 | P. Engel - Philosophy - 2000 - 314 pages
...JL Austin's now neglected How to do things with Words. Towards the end of that book, Austin remarks: "The total speech act in the total speech situation...phenomenon which, in the last resort, we are engaged in elucidating"7. Up to that point he had been elucidating such acts as the phonetic, phatic and rhetic... | |
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The total speech act in the total speech situation is the only actual phenomenon which, in the last resort, we are engaged in elucidating 
