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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 prese...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Robinson, Douglas, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York ; Abingdon [England] : Routledge, 2006.
Subjects:
Pragmatics.
Performative (Philosophy)
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Conversation analysis.
Pragmatique.
Performatif (Philosophie)
Actes de parole.
Analyse de la conversation.
pragmatics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Conversation analysis
Pragmatics
Pragmatik
Performanz > Linguistik
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 comm.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 258 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-249) and index.
ISBN:9781136578618
1136578617
9781315019017
1315019019

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