Excitable speech : a politics of the performative /
Butler, Judith,1956-author.
Excitable Speech examines the issue of the threatening action of words. Negotiating the work of Austin, Derrida and Bourdieu, Butler offers a theory of the political performativity of language and illuminates the efficacy of injurious language.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On linguistic vulnerability -- Burning acts, injurious speech -- Sovereign performatives -- Contagious word: paranoia and "Homosexuality" in the military -- Implicit censorship and discursive agency.
Excitable Speech examines the issue of the threatening action of words. Negotiating the work of Austin, Derrida and Bourdieu, Butler offers a theory of the political performativity of language and illuminates the efficacy of injurious language.
Oral communication
Hate speech.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Language and languages
Political oratory.
Communication in politics.
Communication in politics.
Hate speech.
Language and languages
Oral communication
Political oratory.
Speech acts (Linguistics)