On Performatives and Generating

• Authors: Anna Brożek , Zuzanna Kasprzyk

Title variants

PL

O performatywach i generowaniu

EN

On Performatives and Generating

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The conception of performative utterances proposed by John Langshaw Austin is unclear and provokes many fundamental questions. We compare this proposal with Jacek Juliusz Jadacki's conception of performatives, being much more precise one. We develop Jadacki's intuitions and propose to characterize performatives as expressions fulfilling a specific semantic function: A type-expression W is a performative generating an intentional state of affairs S iff there is a convention K and circumstances C such that the convention K says: if somebody utters a token-expression W in circumstances C, so the state of affairs S will take place. Subsequently, we analyze the problem of correctness of performative utterances and relations between different criteria of correctness of performative acts. On the basis of these analyses, the paradox of annulled marriage is formulated and the problem of perfomatives in law is sketched.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 115-130

Dates

published

2007-06-01

Contributors

author

Anna Brożek

author

Zuzanna Kasprzyk