Normativity and Variety of Speech Actions (Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and th)

Normativity and Variety of Speech Actions embraces papers focused on the performative dimension of language. While all texts in the volume recognize speech primarily as a type of action, the collection is indicative of the multifaceted nature of J.L. Austin's original reflection, which invited many varied research programmes. The problems addressed in the volume are discussed with reference to data culled from natural conversation, mediated political discourse, law, and literary language, and include normativity, e.g. types of norms operative in speech acts, speaker's intentions and commitments, speaker-addressee coordination, but also speech actions in discursive practice, in literal and non-literal language, performance of irony, presupposition, and meaningful significant silence.Contributors are: Brian Ball, Cristina Corredor, Anita Fetzer, Milada Hirschová, Dennis Kurzon, Marcin Matczak, Marina Sbisà, Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, Maciej Witek, and Mateusz Włodarczyk. Normativity and Variety of Speech Actions embraces papers focused on the performative dimension of language. While all texts in the volume recognize speech primarily as a type of action, the collection is indicative of the multifaceted nature of J.L. Austin's original reflection, which invited many varied research programmes. The problems addressed in the volume are discussed with reference to data culled from natural conversation, mediated political discourse, law, and literary language, and include normativity, e.g. types of norms operative in speech acts, speaker's intentions and commitments, speaker-addressee coordination, but also speech actions in discursive practice, in literal and non-literal language, performance of irony, presupposition, and meaningful significant silence. Contributors are: Brian Ball, Cristina Corredor, Anita Fetzer, Milada Hirschová, Dennis Kurzon, Marcin Matczak, Marina Sbisà, Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, Maciej Witek, and Mateusz Włodarczyk Contents 6 Editorial to the Special Issue of 8 Normativity and Variety of Speech Actions 8 Part 1 28 Varieties of Speech Act Norms 30 Commitment and Obligation in Speech Act Theory 58 Coordination and Norms in Illocutionary Interaction 73 Part 2 106 Speech Acts in Discourse 108 Silence as Speech Action, Silence as Nonspeech Action 129 The Dynamics of Conversation: Fixing the Force in Irony. A Case Study 147 Forms of Aggressive Speech Actions in Public Communication 166 A Theory That Beats the Theory? Lineages, the Growth of Signs, and Dynamic Legal Interpretation 187 Are Implicative Verbs Presupposition Triggers? 213 Index 238 Normativity And Variety Of Speech Actions Embraces Papers Focused On The Performative Dimension Of Language. The Volume Gathers Novel Papers Discussing Normativity And Various Other Problems In Speech-act Theory.