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1 In the second half of How to Do Things With Words, âperformativeâ is displaced by the term âillocutionaryâ (also coined by Austin), just as the earlier âconstativeâ is displaced by âlocutionary.â Searle adopts the term âillocutionaryâ and, except in Expression and Meaning, infrequently uses âperformative. In Speech Acts, Searle makes clear his dissatisfaction with the latter term: âAustinâs original inâ sight into performatives was that some utterances were not sayings, but doings of some other kind. But this point can be exaggeratedâ (68). It is not sentences that âact, Searle maintains repeatedly, â but people; language âperformsâ only to the degree that it is the product of an intentional act (29). 2 In The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Heidegger says, âIt can be shown historically that at bottom all the great philosophies since antiquity more or less explicitly took themselves to be, and as such sought to be, ontologyâ (12). As for Derrida, the Western tradition is repeatedly characterized in terms of the pervasive influence of a âmetaphysics of presenceâ: âI do not believe that a single counterexample can be found in the entire history of philosophyâ (âSignatureâ 3). COMPARATIVE LITERATURE /58 In this essay, I trace
Comparative Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2003
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