Monthly Archives for October 2012
Austin, Derrida and Searle
My first question when I faced those four texts was, how can I read them? Then, I realize that there was actually a kind of “order” to do it. Of course, is not the way to do it, but was … Continue reading Continue reading
Derrida VS Searle
Derrida highly appreciated Austin’s study of performatives, but he also launched an attack towards Austin, and he emphasized that the dividing line between performatives and contatives is not absolute, they are not excluding, on the contrary, there exists … Continue reading → Continue reading
How to do Things with Words–Austin
As the founder of speech acts theory, Austin made a distinction between “performatives” and ”constatives”, he specified there kinds of speech acts：the locutionary act, the illocutionary act, the perlocutionary act, he changed the way people considering the relation between language, … Continue reading → Continue reading
Impressions on “How To Do Things With Words” by Austin
In How To Do Things With Words, Austin discusses a special category of utterances – written or spoken – that he calls performatives. A performative utterance is performedin the active voice of the first person of the present indicative. Contrary to a … Continue reading Continue reading
Impressions on the Derrida-Searle argument
From the discussion, argument (fight ?) between Derrida and Searle, my favorite phrase from Derrida is « To conclude this very dry discussion » (p.20) ; not only because Derrida admitted the dryness of his discourse, but mainly because the conclusion to his paper … Continue reading → Continue reading
“Le vert est ou”
“Le vert est ou” Austin and Literature The notion that when we speak we are performing actions that our words refer to and that these utterances are neither true nor false, must have been obvious when people heard themselves being … Continue reading Continue reading
“Le vert est ou”
“Le vert est ou” Austin and Literature The notion that when we speak we are performing actions that our words refer to and that these utterances are neither true nor false, must have been obvious when people heard themselves being … Continue reading Continue reading
Speech Acts, Language Games and Gamey Language
I had mixed feelings when reading Searle and Derrida. I like the personality that comes through Derrida’s writing; I don’t like Searle’s personality. On the other hand, I understand Searle and I am sympathetic with anyone who tries to communicate … Continue reading Continue reading
Derrida-Searle
Too bad Austin didn’t live to see the heated debate his ideas aroused between Derrida and Searle. Furthermore, he could have explained to these guys what he actually intended when he wrote How to do things with words. But no, wait, his intentions should be evident and clearly conveyed in order for his writing to […] Continue reading
How to do things with words
Austin presents a new notion in language with the introduction of the performative utterance. This kind utterance doesn’t describe an action like a constatative utterance, but indicates an action in itself. He gives some examples being the expression “I promise” the most referenced to in the text, what’s particular about this expression is that its […] Continue reading
