Austin's mantle, or who's (not) afraid of John L. Austin? On 50 years of speech act theory, and how Rajan saves J.L. Austin from himself and others
ABSTRACT The article places the person of Professor Kanavillil Rajagopalan within the context of his many years of research and teaching at various universities in Brazil. It is argued that his efforts to advocate a new approach to linguistics, based on the notion of 'speech acts', was not...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
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| Series: | DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502016000300565&lng=en&tlng=en |