20. Speech actions in legal contexts

Witczak-Plisiecka, Iwona

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“…It may often be the case that the coded message is not politically correct, but attractive for the intended audience, as, e.g., a racist signal might be. Feminist issues have already built its own literature in related contexts (cf., e.g., Langton 1993, Hornsby et al 2011, Witczak-Plisiecka 2013b.…”

Section: Implicit Speech Acts Underdetermined Meaningsmentioning

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Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue

Witczak-Plisiecka

2023

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This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research. Relevance theory (RT) since its introduction (Sperber & Wilson 1986/1995) has consistently rejected much of speech act-theoretic thinking, explicitly questioning its having a central position in pragmatics. Using the notion of “the speech act”, RT seems to ignore most of speech act-theoretic apparatus. However, despite the superficial divergence between the two frameworks, the advancements within RT, as developed especially by Deirdre Wilson, and her co-researchers over the years, are convergent with selected thoughts in the Austinian thought. The paper comments on selected points which bring the two linguistics approaches together.

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Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue

Witczak-Plisiecka

2023

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Paula Meehan’s "Cell": The Imprisoned Dialogue of Female Discourses

Poloczek¹

2014

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The paper discusses Paula Mehan’s play Cell with focus on the female discourses present in the context of this literary work and the multifold metaphorisation that both the title of the work and the contents invite. The discourses are analysed against the relevant social background and critical literature. The focal types of discourses under discussion involve imagery from maternal and familiar discourse, the “biological” discourse related to hygiene, the sexual discourse, the mock feminist discourse, the discourse of the military and the propaganda of the common good, and the discourse related to the animal world.

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Metaphors and Legal Language: a Few Comments on Ordinary, Specialised and Legal Meaning

Wojtczak

Witczak-Plisiecka

2019

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The present text offers a few comments on the metaphorical dimension of legal language and the nature of legal language as such. The authors discuss selected metaphors in the context of the Polish legislation with the aim to show how the metaphorical dimension of language can be used and abused. It is also demonstrated that the metaphorical dimension of language can cross-cut the interface between language and law on different levels. There are metaphors in legal texts that can be deliberately used to emphasise or cover selected aspects of meaning, and others that can just happen to act irrespective of any premeditated action on the part of the legislator. Finally, in a wider perspective, it is shown that the relation between ordinary language and the language of the law, i.e. ordinary meaning and legal meaning, may itself be seen as a relation between two domains within which metaphorical mapping takes place. It is claimed that the divide between the realm of law and the “real world” goes beyond a trivial division relative to expertise in the law and expertise in legal discourse, but can be better understood as the division between the legal community and the non-legal community including the academia where linguists reside.

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20. Speech actions in legal contexts

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue

Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue

Paula Meehan’s "Cell": The Imprisoned Dialogue of Female Discourses

Metaphors and Legal Language: a Few Comments on Ordinary, Specialised and Legal Meaning

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