What is it about?
Pragmatics is the study of language as it is used in ordinary everyday life (NOT as abstract structure). Constative pragmaticians attempt to rescue something of the more traditional abstract-structural approach to the study of language by studying TYPES of speaker, TYPES of interpreter, TYPES of speech act, etc. Performative pragmaticians participate in the doing of things to others with words.
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Why is it important?
This is a textbook in search of an audience--teachers to teach it, students to study it.
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Routledge complains that no one is buying this book--but as of the summer of 2016, it has been cited 74 times, only slightly less than its parent book, Performative Linguistics (105) from three years earlier.
Professor Douglas J. Robinson
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
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This page is a summary of: Introducing Performative Pragmatics, September 2005, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781315019017.
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