Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.21.2.04

I. Witczak-Plisiecka

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Abstract

This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research. Relevance theory (RT) since its introduction (Sperber & Wilson 1986/1995) has consistently rejected much of speech act-theoretic thinking, explicitly questioning its having a central position in pragmatics. Using the notion of “the speech act”, RT seems to ignore most of speech act-theoretic apparatus. However, despite the superficial divergence between the two frameworks, the advancements within RT, as developed especially by Deirdre Wilson, and her co-researchers over the years, are convergent with selected thoughts in the Austinian thought. The paper comments on selected points which bring the two linguistics approaches together.

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言语行为与相关性：寻求对话

本文对奥斯汀（J.L. Austin，1962/1975）传统中的言语行为概念进行了评论，试图评估其在基于相关性理论的研究中的相关性（原文如此！）。相关性理论（RT）自问世以来（斯佩尔伯和威尔逊，1986/1995），一直拒绝接受言语行为理论的大部分思想，明确质疑其在语用学中的核心地位。语用学使用 "言语行为 "的概念，似乎忽视了言语行为理论的大部分工具。然而，尽管这两个框架之间存在表面分歧，但语用学内部的进步，特别是迪尔德丽-威尔逊及其合作研究者多年来的发展，与奥斯汀思想中的某些观点是一致的。本文对将这两种语言学方法结合起来的一些要点进行了评论。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.