scholarly journals Differential Publics—Reading (in) the Postcolonial Novel

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elleke Boehmer
Keyword(s):  
James Phelan ◽  
Dan Sperber

AbstractThis essay discusses the activity of reading in three postcolonial novels from three different national contexts (Dangarembga in Zimbabwe, Kapur in India, and Adichie in Nigeria). The essay considers the scenes of focused, respectful, even canonical reading staged in these novels, alongside the more selective or eclectic “reading” and citation taking place at the level of the narration. On the basis of this contrast, it suggests that the postcolonial and transnational publics interpellated by the novels are sometimes different from the audiences or readers dramatized in the texts. It concludes by pointing to the particularly layered—at once deferential and exploratory—reading that is staged within, and by, the postcolonial novel. The essay is shaped by postcritical, cognitive, and hermeneutic approaches to narrative and reading drawn from Rita Felski, James Phelan, Dan Sperber, and Deirdre Wilson.

Intimation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. F. Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
Dan Sperber ◽  
Paul Grice

The communicative scale is introduced. What is fundamental to communication is the intention of the communicator rather than the codes that languages employ. Following the model first proposed by Paul Grice and developed in Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson’s ‘relevance theory’, the structure of communicative intentionality is understood to be recursive: its underlying form is ‘I want you to know that I want you to know’. This leaves room for a simpler kind of transmission, to be called ‘intimation’, whose underlying form would be ‘I want you to know’. If communication is a transmission at the ‘full-on’ position of the scale, and if the switch is off when no communication is intended, then intimation would be at the intermediate, ‘half-on’ position. Intimation is particularly useful in contexts where discretion, suggestiveness, or plausible deniability are needed. It is strongly connected to self-presentation in social life (as studied by Erving Goffman).

scholarly journals Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, The Enigma of Reason

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-282
Author(s):  
Bryon Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Dan Sperber

Mercier, Hugo, and Dan Sperber: The enigma of reason

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-468
Author(s):  
Paul J. D’Ambrosio
Keyword(s):  
Dan Sperber

PRAGMATICS: CRITICAL CONCEPTS. VOL. 1: DAWN AND DELINEATION. VOL. 2: SPEECH ACT THEORY AND PARTICULAR SPEECH ACTS. VOL. 3: INDEXICALS AND REFERENCE. VOL. 4: PRESUPPOSITION, IMPLICATURE, AND INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS. VOL. 5: COMMUNICATION, INTERACTION, AND DISCOURSE. VOL. 6: PRAGMATICS: GRAMMAR, PSYCHOLOGY, AND SOCIOLOGY.Asa Kasher (Ed.). London: Routledge, 1998. Vol. 1: Pp. xi + 154. Vol. 2: Pp. vi + 511. Vol. 3: Pp. 217. Vol. 4: Pp. vi + 722. Vol. 5: Pp. vi + 490. Vol. 6: Pp. vi + 559. $905.00 cloth.

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-122
Author(s):  
Susan Foster-Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
First Language ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Indirect Speech Acts ◽  
Dan Sperber ◽  
Paul Grice ◽  
François Recanati

This six-volume, beautifully bound, boxed set contains 112 reprinted papers covering the history and development of modern theoretical pragmatics from its beginnings back in the 1940s and '50s with Charles Morris, Rudolf Camap, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, via the major works in the 1970s of those such as Stalnaker, Bach and Hamish, J. L. Austin, John Searle, and Paul Grice, to the more recent contributions of, among many others, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, François Recanati, and Anna Wierzbicka. The bulk of the contributions, either free-standing papers or sections from books, come out of what one might term a philosophical approach to pragmatics, but toward the end of the collection there is an attempt to cover more ethnographically rooted approaches and even to get into applied pragmatic issues related to aphasia, first language acquisition, second language acquisition (one paper), and politics.

Worlds from Words: A Theory of Language in Fiction. James Phelan

1983 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-449
Author(s):  
Peter J. Rabinowitz
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Language ◽  
James Phelan

: Le Savoir Des Anthropologues . Dan Sperber.

1984 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-432
Author(s):  
Pierre Maranda
Keyword(s):  
Dan Sperber

Reviews

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Dan Sperber

AbstractPaul H. Portner (2005).Ira A. Noveck and Dan Sperber (eds.) (2004).Stephen Barker (2004).

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