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Publication details [#14038]

Beaugrande, Robert de. 1998. Performative speech acts in linguistic theory: The rationality of Noam Chomsky. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (6) : 765–803.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

On the problems of relating theory with practice, and rationality with materiality: the role of speech act theory in this debate and Noam Chomsky's replacement of real language with ideal language, thereby bypassing the social basis of language.