Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics by Marin... - 9780192844125

Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in PragmaticsAuthor(s): Marina Sbis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780192844125, 978-0192844125\nSynopsis\nThis book collects seventeen essays published between 1984 and 2020, in which Marina Sbis develops her distinctive approach to speech acts and related pragmatic phenomena. Drawing inspiration from the work of J. L. Austin, the essays examine the categories of speech act theory and apply these categories in the context of natural discourse and conversation, with the aim of providing an accurate analysis of how speech can be action. Sbis devotes particular attention to normative aspects of language and language use: speech acts reshape the normative context in which they occur by assigning or unassigning deontic properties to relevant parties. Emphasis is placed on the normative aspect of linguistically mandated presuppositions as well as the rational grounds .