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Performative Pragmatics Sample
Syllabus for Graduate Seminar (one
class meeting per week) Texts: - J.
L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words
- Jacques
Derrida, Limited Inc
- Horst
Ruthrof, The Body in Language
- Erving
Goffman, Frame Analysis
- Douglas
Robinson, Performative Pragmatics
- course
pack (Searle, Cavell, Butler, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty,
Burke, Bourdieu, Goffman "Face-Work," Brown and Levinson)
Syllabus Week | Topic | Reading
assignment | 1 | introduction | - | 2 | performatives | Austin,
How To Do Things With Words, first half | 3 | parasitic
speech acts, iterability | Derrida,
Limited Inc, "Signature Event Context"; Searle, "Reiterating
the Differences" | 4 | parasitic
speech acts, iterability | Derrida,
Limited Inc, "Limited Inc abc ..."; Cavell, "What Does Derrida
Want from Austin?" | 5 | performative
identities | Butler,
from Gender Trouble; Robinson, Performative Pragmatics (ch. 3) | 6 | speech
acts | Austin,
How To Do Things With Words (second half); Robinson, Performative Pragmatics
(ch. 4) | 7 | frame
analysis (keying, fabrication) | Goffman,
Frame Analysis (ch. 2/3/5/6, skim ch. 4); Robinson, Performative Pragmatics
(ch. 5) | 8 | frame
analysis (breaking frame, talk) | Goffman,
Frame Analysis (ch. 7/10/11/13, skim ch. 12) | 9 | implicature | Grice,
"Logic and Conversation"; Robinson, Performative Pragmatics (Part
III) | 10 | the
lived body | Husserl,
from Ideas II; Merleau-Ponty, from Phenomenology of Perception;
Mauss, "The Techniques of the Body" | 11 | the
haptic body | Ruthrof,
The Body in Language (1-97); Robinson, Performative Pragmatics (ch.
11) | 12 | the
haptic body | Ruthrof,
The Body in Language (98-178) | 13 | the
body as the site of social regulation | Nietzsche,
from Genealogy of Morals; Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History";
Freud, "On Narcissism," "The Unconscious," from first lecture
of Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Bourdieu,
from Distinction | 14 | docile
bodies and corporeal signification | Foucault,
from Discipline and Punish; Butler, from Bodies That Matter | 15 | politeness
and face | Goffman
("Face-Work"); Brown and Levinson (from Politeness); Robinson,
Performative Pragmatics (ch. 12) |
Requirements:
one 1-2-page response paper every week; 10-20-page research paper |