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A counterlinguistics.

What is it about?

Even if Austin's performative-constative distinction doesn't work with utterances, it does with approaches to the study of language. (I borrowed this notion from Shoshana Felman.) Radical rethinkings of Austin and Grice through Derrida, Bakhtin, Bourdieu, and Peirce.

Why is it important?

More than a decade after the publication of this book, it is becoming increasingly clear that the study of performativity in/of translation is hot--and scholars are referencing PL.

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