Rationality as the Normative Dimension of Speech Acts

My paper deals with Searle’s account of the normative dimension involved in the performance of speech acts. I will first critically assess the rule-based speech act theory behind Searle’s characterization of the normativity of language – arguing that this approach cannot explain what makes a certai...

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Autor principal:	Federica Berdini
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Lenguaje:	EN FR IT
Publicado:	Rosenberg & Sellier 2016
Materias:	speech acts inferentialism rationality Aesthetics BH1-301 Ethics BJ1-1725
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:df4bd20c1eed4f3bae30bcd94a708bac2021-12-02T10:31:06ZRationality as the Normative Dimension of Speech Acts10.13128/Phe_Mi-196362280-78532239-4028https://doaj.org/article/df4bd20c1eed4f3bae30bcd94a708bac2016-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7083https://doaj.org/toc/2280-7853https://doaj.org/toc/2239-4028 My paper deals with Searle’s account of the normative dimension involved in the performance of speech acts. I will first critically assess the rule-based speech act theory behind Searle’s characterization of the normativity of language – arguing that this approach cannot explain what makes a certain illocutionary act the specific type of illocutionary act it is, both in literal and non-literal or indirect cases. As an alternative, I will endorse the inferentialist model of linguistic communication proposed by Bach and Harnish. Besides a benefit on the side of speech act theory, the inferentialist model – along with some suggestions offered by Grice’s later reflections about rationality – can adequately account for the normative dimension arising from language. In particular, it enables to do so by emphasizing an aspect pointed out by Searle himself: the social character of the communication situation. I will claim that the presumption about the interlocutor’s rationality could be regarded as the basic form of normativity deriving from the social character of the communication situation. Federica BerdiniRosenberg & Sellierarticlespeech actsinferentialismrationalityAestheticsBH1-301EthicsBJ1-1725ENFRITPhenomenology and Mind, Iss 2 (2016)
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description	My paper deals with Searle’s account of the normative dimension involved in the performance of speech acts. I will first critically assess the rule-based speech act theory behind Searle’s characterization of the normativity of language – arguing that this approach cannot explain what makes a certain illocutionary act the specific type of illocutionary act it is, both in literal and non-literal or indirect cases. As an alternative, I will endorse the inferentialist model of linguistic communication proposed by Bach and Harnish. Besides a benefit on the side of speech act theory, the inferentialist model – along with some suggestions offered by Grice’s later reflections about rationality – can adequately account for the normative dimension arising from language. In particular, it enables to do so by emphasizing an aspect pointed out by Searle himself: the social character of the communication situation. I will claim that the presumption about the interlocutor’s rationality could be regarded as the basic form of normativity deriving from the social character of the communication situation.
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