Sbisà on speech as action / Laura Caponetto, Paolo Labinaz, editors.

The volume provides a thorough look into Marina Sbiss distinctive, Austinian-inspired approach to speech acts. By gathering original essays from a world-class lineup of philosophers of language, linguists, social epistemologists, action theorists, and communication scholars, the collection provides...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Caponetto, Laura, Labinaz, Paolo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2023.
Series:Philosophers in depth.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Marina Sbisà's Deontic Approach to Speech Actions
  • 1 Themes in Marina Sbisà's Philosophy
  • 2 Illocution and Conventionality
  • Convention and Intention in Illocution
  • Illocutionary Effects as Conventional Effects
  • 3 Illocutionary Effects and Deontic Modality
  • 4 Accommodation and Felicity Conditions
  • 5 This Collection: Structure and Contents
  • References
  • Should Speech Act Theory Eschew Propositions?
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Sbisà's Argument Against Propositions
  • 3 Limitations of the "Attitudinal" Approach to Speech Act Theory
  • 4 A Middle Way: Contentful Commitments
  • 5 Contentful Indicators of Force
  • References
  • On the Conventional Nature of Illocutionary Acts: Uptake, Conventions, and Illocutionary Effects
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Sbisà's Criticism of the Intentionalist Understanding of Speech Efficiency
  • The Securing of Uptake as the Backbone of the Intentionalist Conception
  • Sbisà's Defense of the Conventionalist Position
  • 3 On the Conventional Nature of the Illocutionary Act as a Social Act and Its Social Conditions
  • The Speech Act of Telling as a Public Act of Commitment
  • On Social Conditions and the Limits of Context Plasticity
  • 4 Conclusion
  • References
  • Varieties of Uptake
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 What Is Uptake?
  • 3 Securing of Uptake: Hearer-Dependent Reading
  • Ratification Theory
  • Constitution Theory
  • Collaboration Theory
  • 4 Challenges and Objections
  • Scope
  • The Power of the Hearer
  • Deliberate Misinterpretation
  • 5 Communicative Versus Normative Dimension
  • 6 Conclusion: A Speaker-Dependent Reading
  • References
  • Interactional Negotiation
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Uptake, Responses, and Accommodation in Force Negotiation
  • 3 Language Conventions as Lineages of Negotiated Precedents
  • References
  • Some Varieties of Illocutionary Pluralism
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Illocutionary Force
  • 3 Sbisà's Pluralism
  • 4 Johnson's Pluralism
  • 5 Lewiński's Pluralism
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Speech Acts and Ventriloquation: The Contribution of Marina Sbisà to a General Theory of Action and Performativity
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Action: What's in This Word?
  • 3 Speech Acts as Specific Types of Action
  • 4 Textual Agency
  • 5 Speech Acts and Ventriloquation
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Towards a Unified Theory of Illocutionary Normativity
  • 1 Varieties of Illocutionary Norms
  • 2 Sbisà's Framework: The "Tripartite View"
  • The Tripartite View
  • Applying the Tripartition to Existing Notions
  • Terminology
  • Revising and Extending the Model
  • 3 Two Challenges for the Tripartite Model
  • Upstream Rules and Downstream Obligations
  • A Neglected Category: Aims
  • 4 Cooperation, Rules, and Illocutionary Concepts
  • Disagreement About Rules
  • The Checklist View
  • Cooperative Rules as Rational Expectations