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Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics

By: Marina Sbisà

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Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics

By: Marina Sbisà

This book collects seventeen essays published between 1984 and 2020, in which Marina Sbisà develops her distinctive approach to speech acts and related pragmatic phenomena. Drawing inspiration from the work of J. L. Austin, the essays examine the categories of speech act theory and apply these categories in the context of natural discourse and conversation, with the aim of providing an accurate analysis of how speech can be action. Sbisà devotes particular attention to normative aspects of language and language use: speech acts reshape the normative context in which they occur by assigning or unassigning deontic properties to relevant parties. Emphasis is placed on the normative aspect of linguistically mandated presuppositions as well as the rational grounds of implicature. The conventionalist view of speech acts developed here turns on the role of intersubjective agreement in deontic updating, in a framework that shifts focus from single utterances to discursive sequences and conversational interaction. This view challenges the main tenets of a Gricean intentionalist understanding of speech act performance, paving the way for a theory of speech actions centred on the normatively transformative power of illocution. Throughout the essays, examples and applications are given to illustrate how the view put forward contributes to understanding the social and political dimensions of linguistic activity, such as hidden persuasive strategies, power imbalances both within and outside the context of conversation, and the relevance of language and discourse to gender issues.

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Oxford University Press

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019265800X

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9780192658005

Austinian Themes

Illocution, Action, Knowledge, Truth, and Philosophy

By: Marina Sbis?

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Austinian Themes

Illocution, Action, Knowledge, Truth, and Philosophy

By: Marina Sbis?

Austinian Themes offers a reconstruction of philosophical views on several themes developed by J. L. Austin. Exploring Austin's work in detail through a series of thematically organized chapters, Marina Sbis? draws on both published work as well as unpublished manuscript notes to offer a defence of Austin's speech act theory, characterized by a specific notion of illocution, against some important criticisms. Sbis? offers a reconstruction of Austin's responsibility-based conception of action drawing on his remarks on acts and actions in How to Do Things with Words and in later papers. Exploring Austin's contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of perception (including his realist stance, anti-scepticism, and presentational view of perception), Sbis? analyses the roles that he assigns to knowledge in the dynamics of assertion. On the theme of truth, Austin's claims are expounded and explained as worthy of reassessment. Other chapters explore the ways in which Austin deals with sense, reference, 'family resemblances', truth-falsity assessments, and context-dependence. Austin's most famous statement of method, as outlining a 'linguistic phenomenology', is cast as analogous to Husserl's phenomenology in adopting an epoch? which isolates language (rather than consciousness), a reading which helps to clarify several characteristic positions adopted by Austin. On metaphilosophical themes, Sbis? analyses the notion of ordinariness, distinguishing it from common sense and the endorsement of the 'Linguistic Turn', approaching it instead in terms of the by-default nature of the social bond and conversational cooperation. Various recurrent aspects of Austin's philosophy are illuminated: the opposition to dichotomies, the attention paid to intersubjectivity, the commitment to a 'sober' philosophy, and a strong sense of human situatedness.

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393

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Oxford University Press

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0192658344

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9780192658340

Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

By: Marina Montesano

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Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

By: Marina Montesano

This book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography. It is often noted that stories of witchcraft circulated in Greek and Latin classical texts, and that treatises dealing with witch-beliefs referenced them. Still, the role of humanistic culture and classical revival in the developing of the witch-hunts has not yet been fully researched. Marina Montesano examines Greek and Latin literature, revealing how particular features of ancient striges were carried into the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance and into the fifteenth century, when early Italian trials recall the myth of the strix common in ancient Latin sources and in popular memory. The final chapter also serves as a conclusion, to show how in Renaissance Italy and beyond, classical accounts of witchcraft ceased to be just stories, as they had formerly been, and were instead used to attest to the reality of witches’ powers.

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282

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Springer

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3319920782

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9783319920788

Technology Trends in Wireless Communications

By: Ramjee Prasad,Marina Ruggieri

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Technology Trends in Wireless Communications

By: Ramjee Prasad,Marina Ruggieri

This is an authoritative description of the range of future mobile communications technologies.

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329

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Artech House

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1580533523

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9781580533522

Resilience in Papal Rome, 1656-1870

A City's Response to Crisis

By: Marina Formica,Donatella Strangio

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Resilience in Papal Rome, 1656-1870

A City's Response to Crisis

By: Marina Formica,Donatella Strangio

This book analyses the evolution of the city of Rome, in particular, papal Rome, from the plague of 1656 until 1870 when it became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The authors explore papal Rome as a resilient city that had to cope with numerous crises during this period. By focusing on a selection of different crises in Rome, the book combines cultural, political, and economic history to examine key turning points in the city’s history. The book is split into chapters exploring themes such as diplomacy and international relations, disease, environmental disasters, famine, public debt, and unravels the political, economic, and social consequences of these transformative events. All the chapters are based on untapped original sources, chiefly from the State Archive in Rome, the Vatican Archives, the Rome Municipal Archives, the École Française Library, the National Library, and the Capitoline Library.

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331

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Springer Nature

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3031412605

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9783031412608

MVSICES.3

By: a cura di Roberto Carnevale,Marina Leonardi

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MVSICES.3

By: a cura di Roberto Carnevale,Marina Leonardi

Una raccolta di studi a carattere musicologico, analitico e didattico, curata da tre illustri musicisti italiani: Roberto Carnevale, Graziella Concas e Marina Leonardi

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286

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Lulu.com

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1291918094

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9781291918090

Book's by Marina Leonardi

Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics

Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics

Austinian Themes

Austinian Themes

Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Technology Trends in Wireless Communications

Technology Trends in Wireless Communications

Resilience in Papal Rome, 1656-1870

Resilience in Papal Rome, 1656-1870

MVSICES.3

MVSICES.3

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