Publications

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

Keywords

performative | rationalism | reality | speech act

Person as a subject

Chomsky, N.

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

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.