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Performative Linguistics

‘‘This is an exciting book, that raises important questions about the relationship between

linguistics and translation. Robinson’s challenging approach is to be welcomed, and the

clarity of his arguments adds to the impact of his ideas. You might not agree with every-

thing he says, but you will never be bored for a moment’’

Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick, UK

‘‘This book lays out a much-needed interdisciplinary map for coordinated advances in

translation studies, intercultural studies, and a rejuvenated discipline that should still be

called ‘linguistics’.’’

Anthony Pym, Rovira University,Virgili, Spain

J. L. Austin famously distinguished between ‘‘constative’’ utterances that

convey information and ‘‘performative’’ utterances that perform actions. In

this groundbreaking new book, Douglas Robinson argues that Austin’s

distinction can be used to understand linguistic methodologies.

Robinson uses Austin’s model to introduce a new distinction between ‘‘consta-

tive’’ and ‘‘performative’’ linguistics. Constative linguistics, Robinson suggests,

includes methodologies aimed at ‘‘freezing’’ language as an abstract sign system

cut off from the use of language in actual speech situations. Performative linguis-

tics, on the other hand, covers methodologies aimed at exploring how language

gets used or ‘‘performed’’ in those speech situations.

Robinson then tests his hypothesis on a series of complex speech acts, includ-

ing translation, deception, and allusion, and shows that a performative

approach to the study of language can explain ALL linguistic complexities,

from the ordinary to the extraordinary.

Drawing on a range of language scholars and theorists including Austin,

Grice, Peirce, Bakhtin, Burke, and Derrida, Performative Linguistics consoli-

dates the many disparate action-approaches to language into a single coherent

new paradigm for the study of language as speech act, as performance ^ as

doing things with words.

Douglas Robinson is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi,

USA. His publications include Who Translates? (2001), Becoming a Translator

(Routledge, 1997), WesternTranslationTheory from Herodotus to Nietzsche (19 97),

TranslationandTaboo (1996), andTheTranslator’sTurn (1991).

Performative Linguistics

Speaking and translating as doing

things with words

Douglas Robinson

Firstpublished2003

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