ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |54 pages
Performatives
chapter |18 pages
Constative and performative linguistics
chapter |14 pages
Translatorial performatives
part |65 pages
Iterations (the Performative Back-Story)
chapter |13 pages
Iterability
chapter |12 pages
Somatic Markers
chapter |13 pages
The translator's habitus
chapter |25 pages
Double-voicing
part |104 pages
Implicatures (performative uptake)