Communication and Austin's Notion of "Uptake".

Autor/in	Lanigan, Richard L.
Titel	Communication and Austin's Notion of "Uptake".
Quelle	(1975), (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Communication (Thought Transfer); Information Theory; Linguistic Theory; Persuasive Discourse; Philosophy; Rhetoric; Semiotics; Verbal Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Informationstheorie; Linguistische Theorie; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Philosophie; Rhetorik; Semiotik
Abstract	John Austin's notion of illocutionary force is explored within the context of the speech act in the total speech situation; definitions of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts are reviewed. It is argued that illocutionary acts are performatives that occur within a complete communication situation in which the key element is the interaction of the speaker and listener in constituting the force of the utterance. The notion of "force" should be understood as the phenomenon of uptake which a speaker offers by speaking and which a listener achieves by understanding what he or she hears as a certain state of affairs. This account allows for a distinction between locutionary acts of merely uttering words and illocutionary acts where the utterance carries an effect within one communicative situation. Finally, the notion of force as being primarily constituted by uptake allows a distinction between illocutionary effect and perlocutionary effect where the latter requires a secondary act in consequence of the original act of speaking. We discover that in communication a person may understand without being persuaded and that persuasion may be empty information. (AA)
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