"Any Search for an Origin is Hysterical": Summoning the Ghost of J.L. Austin
As the father of the concept of the “performative utterance”, British philosopher of language J.L. Austin is regularly cast as the point of origin in a genealogy tracing the influence of linguistic theory on performance theory. Based on extensive research into Austin’s writing praxis, this paper dem...
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| Language: | English |
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Performance Philosophy
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Performance Philosophy |
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| Online Access: | https://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/102 |