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From recognition to acknowledgement : rethinking the perlocutionary

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Lorenzini, Daniele (2020) From recognition to acknowledgement : rethinking the perlocutionary. Inquiry . doi:10.1080/0020174X.2020.1712231 (In Press)

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Abstract

In this paper, I argue that a serious philosophical investigation of the domain of the perlocutionary is both possible and desirable, and I show that it possesses a distinctively moral dimension that has so far been overlooked. I start, in Section II, by offering an original characterisation of the distinction between the illocutionary and the perlocutionary derived from the degree of predictability and stability that differentiates their respective effects. In Section III, I argue that, in order to grasp the specificity of the perlocutionary, we must focus on the total speech situation, which I define as conversation. Then, in Section IV, I show that an investigation of the domain of the perlocutionary requires us to draw a conceptual distinction between recognition and acknowledgment. This distinction proves to be crucial, because the success of perlocutions normally depends on something more than what Austin calls the ‘securing of uptake’: the reciprocity condition for illocutions needs to be supplemented, in the case of perlocutions, with an analysis of what I call the ‘grammar of acknowledgment.’ Lastly, in Section V, I elaborate the notion of ‘perlocutionary responsibility,’ a specific form of moral responsibility for the consequences of utterances that are not (entirely) predictable.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Speech acts (Linguistics) , Language and languages -- Philosophy
Journal or Publication Title: Inquiry
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0020-174X
Official Date: 9 January 2020
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9 January 2020Available
23 September 2019Accepted
DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2020.1712231
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: In Press
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Inquiry on 09/01/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1712231
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