Introducing Performative Pragmatics

by Douglas Robinson

2021-01-09 18:02:09

This user-friendly introduction to a new ''performative'' methodology in linguistic pragmatics breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine. Drawing on a wide spectrum of research and theory from the past thirty y... Read more

This user-friendly introduction to a new ''performative'' methodology in linguistic pragmatics breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine. Drawing on a wide spectrum of research and theory from the past thirty years in particular, Douglas Robinson presents a combination of ''action-oriented approaches'' from sources such as J.L. Austin, H. Paul Grice, Harold Garfinkel and Erving Goffman.

Paying particular attention to language as drama, the group regulation of language use, individual resistance to these regulatory pressures and nonverbal communication, the work also explains groundbreaking concepts and analytical models.

With a key points section, discussion questions and exercises in every chapter, this book will be an invaluable resource to students and teachers on a variety of courses, including linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics and interpersonal communication.

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Book Details

File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0.05 in
Print pages288
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date November 9, 2005
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780415371872
Douglas Robinson is Chair Professor and Dean of the Arts Faculty at Hong Kong Baptist University....

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