Introducing Performative Pragmatics

Robinson, Douglas

ISBN 10: 0415371872 / ISBN 13: 9780415371872

Published by Routledge, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introducing Performative Pragmatics
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415371872
• ISBN 13: 9780415371872
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Like New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Douglas Robinson is professor of English at the University of Mississippi.  His previous publications include Performative Linguistics (Routledge, 2003) and Becoming a Translator (Routledge, 1997, rev. ed. 2003).