Performative Linguistics: Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words

Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Performative Linguistics: Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 January 2002
Pages
272
ISBN
9780415753999

Performative Linguistics: Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words

Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

In this book, Douglas Robinson introduces a new distinction between ‘constative’ and ‘performative’ linguistics, arguing that Austin’s distinction can be used to understand linguistic methodologies. Constative linguistics, Robinson suggests, includes methodologies aimed at ‘freezing’ language as an abstract sign system, while performative linguistics explores how language is used or ‘performed’ in those speech situations. Robinson then tests his hypothesis on the act of translation. Drawing on a range of language scholars and theorists, Performative Linguistics consolidates the many disparate action-approaches to language into a new paradigm for the study of language.

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