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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Performative speech"”.
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Characterising Performative Speech Modes via Analysis by Synthesis
… and Artificial Intelligence research in performative speech, and its acoustic and perceptual properties. However, this speech domain is abstract and highly nuanced, making it highly difficult to characterise in the already complicated realm of expressive speech theories and research. This …
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Style and mimesis in the name of Walter Benjamin
… the interpretation of his style in terms of the performative speech act; and by a failure to address part of the reason for his prioritisation of Plato and Kant above all other philosophers, namely the role of dialogue in Plato and the mystical terminology of Kant.
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Pragmatic readings of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611 with diplomatic transcriptions of their correspondence
… 4 examines the sociopragmatic significance of performative speech act verbs such as beseech and confess and shows how individual manifestations of these forms actually reflect and reiterate larger aspects of early modern English culture and sociability. Chapter 5 compares Joan’s holograph …
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How To Do Things With Cameras
… (2011) Matt’s Gallery. J.L. Austin’s theory of performative speech is an important theoretical tool for this thesis. In his series of lectures How To Do Things With Words, Austin asked whether words can produce a reality rather than describe one? I pitch this question not to words, but to the …