Searle on language

Love, Nigel

doi:10.1016/s0271-5309(98)00015-9

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“…This paper looks at John Searle's philosophical position, termed biological naturalism, as discussed in his two books Mind, Language, and Society (Searle 1998) and Language and Consciousness (Searle 2002): it does so from the vantage point of integrationism, as outlined by its founder Roy Harris (e.g., Harris 1996Harris , 1998Harris , 2009b. In some way, this paper continues the integrational critique of Searle's philosophy (of language) undertaken by Nigel Love in his article Searle on Language (Love 1999), which was based on three works by Searle published prior to 1998. 1 The present article is intended as a response to Searle's claim that consciousness is a purely biological problem, as well as a critical reflection on how Searle instrumentalizes language in order to support his views of respectively external realism and the correspondence theory of truth.…”

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An integrational response to Searlean realism, or how language does not relate to consciousness

Pablé¹

2013

Semiotica

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The relationship between language and a science of consciousness is rarely treated as crucial for the field's metatheory (i.e., its underlying philosophical assumptions about the role and nature of language). John Searle is among those thinkers who has given language due attention as part of his realist philosophy, and semantic questions turn out to be in the forefront of his plea for a scientific approach to the phenomenon of consciousness. This paper will consider Searle's philosophy of language in the light of an integrational theory of communication (Harris 1981, 1996, 1998). It is argued here that Searlean realism is grounded in a "reocentric" conception of the world, which (wrongly) assumes an isomorphic relation between language and what language refers to.

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An integrational response to Searlean realism, or how language does not relate to consciousness

Pablé¹

2013

Semiotica

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“…The construct is also criticized. For example, Love ( 1999 ) and Rajagopalan ( 2000 ) highlight contradictory states of affairs. The setting of this research however, is not language philosophical, but applicational: we want to use Searle’s taxonomy of Speech Acts to structure a set of highly influential texts.…”

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Speech acts in the Dutch COVID-19 Press Conferences

Schueler

Marx

2022

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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An open source corpus of all Dutch COVID-19 Press Conferences with sentences annotated on the basis of John Searle’s Speech Act taxonomy was created. It contains all 58 press conferences held between March 6 2020 and April 20 2021 and has 9.441 manually annotated sentences. Speech acts were annotated in a consistent manner, with a Krippendorff’s alpha of .71. The corpus is easy to use and rich in metadata, with lexical, syntactic, discourse (speaker, question or answer) features and information on the type of regulations being present. We analyse the press conferences in terms of speech act usage, giving insight into the use of speech acts over time, the relation of speech act usage to real world phenomena, the general structure of the press conferences and the division of roles between speakers. Relations were found between speech act usage and the type of press conference (i.e. easing, tightening or neutral) as well as the number of hospital admissions. Speech act classes showed preferred locations within the press conferences, indicating a general structure. Distinct roles between speakers were identified. We also investigate the use of our set of labelled sentences for training a speech act classifier and achieve a reasonable accuracy of .73 and a mean reciprocal rank of .74 with the state of the art transformer RoBERTa model.

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“…A ela, deixo registrados os meus sinceros agradecimentos e estendo-os aos demais integrantes da comissão avaliadora composta pelos professores doutores Daniel do Nascimento e Silva (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) e Claudiana Nogueira Alencar (Universidade Estadual do Ceará). 2 Os contornos contraditórios da evidente relação de sucessão de Austin por Searle são reconhecidos na obra de Rajagopalan (2000), a partir de Love (1999). O estudioso elabora explicações mais voltadas para a "sociologia do conhecimento" que para um percurso naturalizado dos estudos da Filosofia da Linguagem.…”

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Por uma reflexão sobre a "promessa" nos estudos performativos

Anjos

2020

Líng. Instrum. Linguist.

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Como ato de fala prototípico na tradição performativa, a promessa é analisada em diferentes estudos que promoveram leituras a respeito do legado de John L. Austin, como nos esforços de sistematização formal, em John Searle, ou mesmo a partir da dimensão do corpo, em Shoshana Felman. Este artigo revisita esse ato de fala em uma análise que busca explorar, com Jacques Derrida, a sua dimensão iterável, ao passo que reflete sobre a relação insustentável da promessa com o corpo e sobre sua subversão em relação ao político. Para isso, traz ao debate os trabalhos de Judith Butler e Joana Pinto, bem como a noção política de Jacques Rancière, em um diálogo que faz ver outros potenciais, falhas e infelicidades da promessa.

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Searle on language

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

An integrational response to Searlean realism, or how language does not relate to consciousness

An integrational response to Searlean realism, or how language does not relate to consciousness

Speech acts in the Dutch COVID-19 Press Conferences

Por uma reflexão sobre a "promessa" nos estudos performativos

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