Open AccessThe system of performative utterances in the light of the synthesis of theories of act and speech
Author(s) -
Mehri Altay Zahidova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
elmi xəbərlər
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2789-4614
pISSN - 2789-4606
DOI - 10.54414/hump7637
Subject(s) - performative utterance , sentence , speech act , linguistics , meaning (existential) , field (mathematics) , action (physics) , indirect speech , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
Linguistic studies left almost completely out of their field of view the vast and fascinating area of research for the meaning of the sentence. The conception of language as a means of action has become a topic of sustained investigation by philosophers of language and linguists within the theory of speech acts. The pursuit of this approach is to examine, among such bits, performative utterances and their five general classes of speech acts, by considering them communicative goals. The present paper elucidates the foundations of this pragmatic theory as formulated by one of its leading figure J. Austin and goes even further to search for a general theory of act, including both the theory of act and the theory of speech.