Robinson, Douglas, 1954-

Performative linguistics : speaking and translating as doing things with words / Douglas Robinson. - xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Performatives. Introduction: linguistics and translation studies. Constative and performative linguistics. Translatorial performatives -- Iterations (the performative back-story). Iterability. Somatic markers. The translator's habitus. Double-voicing -- Implicatures (performative uptake). Conversational implicature. Translation as ideological implicature. Il-, per-, and metalocutionary implicature. Intendants and interpretants. Conventional implicature and language change. Conversational invocature. Metalocutionary implicature and cross-cultural misunderstandings. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pt. III. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

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Translating and interpreting--Philosophy
Speech acts (Linguistics)

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