"Class Acts examines two often neglected aspects of Jacques Derrida's work as a philosopher, his public presentations at lectures and conferences and his teaching, along with the question of the "speech act" that links them. What, Michael Naas asks, is one doing when one speaks …
"Hearing Mark's Endings has two foci: it represents an attempt to show that ancient popular texts are written to be read aloud, and further, develops an aurally attuned hermeneutic to interpret them by."--BOOK JACKET.
Proust the Linguistic Anthropologist -- Interlude: Talk in Balzac and Eliot -- Idiotic Speech (Acts?) and the Form of In Search of Lost Time -- Interlude: Harmonizing Habitus in Woolf -- Proust and Bourdieu: Distinction and Form -- Interlude: Indexical Force in Sarraute and Cusk…
This volume provides extensive critical information about current discussions in the study of speech actions. Its central reference point is classic speech act theory, but attention is also paid to nonstandard developments and other approaches that study speech as action. The fi…
