Description

• Title:
  Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue
• Creator:
  Witczak-Plisiecka, Iwona
• Contributor:
  University of Łódź;
  iwona.plisiecka@uni.lodz.pl
• 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.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2024.01.03;
  2023.12.28
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Research in Language;2;
  21
• Subject:
  speech act theory;
  relevance theory;
  cognitive linguistics;
  hate;
  offensive language
• Identifier:
  1731-7533;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/49001 ;
  10.18778/1731-7533.21.2.04
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  image