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26 janvier 2017
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Nathan W. Hill, « Speech acts and hocus pocus », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10.58079/nsto
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In J. L. Austin's theory a “speech act” is an utterance that achieves some action by virtue of its being spoken, “I thee wed,” “I hereby open the 23rd International …”, etc. but not “The king of France is bald,” “Did you go to the party yesterday?”, etc. I have recently witnessed an inclination at workshops in religious studies to refer to magic as speech acts. The motivation is to not dismiss magic as hocus pocus, but instead take an emic perspective; the effort fails. To claim that hoc est...