Performative Linguistics
Subtitle: Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 23, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415300360
First sentence: Linguistics is the study of language: even etymologically this is an obvious fact.
Description: This title consolidates the many disparate action-approaches to language into a single coherent new paradigm for the study of language as speech act, as performance - as doing things with words.