Djelovanje jezikom: govorni čini u dramama Lade Kaštelan
Operating with Language: Speech Acts in the Plays by Lada Kastelan

Summary/Abstract: Operate with language in this sense means to make changes in reality using language as an available mean. J. L. Austin’s idea of operating with words is a product of Oxford philosophy school – philosophy of ordinary language. Everyday and in some measure natural speech, easily notice able in the theatre texts, served as a source for this approach to analyzing language. Thus the language of play is offered here as a replacement for real speech situations. There is some place left for usage of theory in usual circumstances. The paper is an overview of applying speech acts the oryon the plays by Lada Kastelan. The foundation of speech acts theory liesin J. L. Austin’s doctrine. His doctrine was continued by John R. Searle who noticed weaknesses of the mentioned theory and improved it with enormous contribution. Searle’s taxonomy implies that assertives, commissives, directives, expressives and declarations are a special category.The speech act does not have to contain performative verbs, so there are indirect speech acts that own its act affiliation to semantics or deep structure of the sentence. At the end there is a critic of the theory and attempt of upgrading in the dialogue grammar by German linguist Franz Hundsnurscher.

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