Marina Sbisà
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marina Sbisà is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0922-842X
Titles
Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics
Edited by Marina Sbisà, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational,… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 10] 2011. xv, 318 pp.
Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Conference on Pragmatics, Urbino, July 8–14, 1979
Edited by Herman Parret, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren
This impressive volume attempts to make an assessment of past achievements, but also to open up new perspectives in the field of pragmatics, exactly ten years after the publication of Searle’s seminal Speech Acts. This rich collection presents an unrivaled diversity of topics and approaches united… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 7] 1981. x, 854 pp.
2025 Speech act theory Handbook of Pragmatics: 28th Annual Installment, Declercq, Jana, Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt and Mieke Vandenbroucke (eds.), pp. 143–161 | Chapter
2024 Is commenting an expositive illocutionary act? The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond, Külpmann, Robert and Rita Finkbeiner (eds.), pp. 294–317 | Article
The paper outlines an analysis of the act of commenting within the author’s Austin-inspired speech-act theoretical framework. The general lines of that framework are concisely expounded, and it is suggested that the act of commenting should be described as belonging to Austin’s Expositives. The… read more
2022 Analytical philosophy Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 38–50 | Chapter
2022 Speech act theory Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1303–1317 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 5. Speech acts and the dissemination of knowledge in social networks Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice, Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland (eds.), pp. 145–172 | Chapter
This paper analyzes how social network users engaged in discussions under a public post contribute to knowledge dissemination through their verbal behavior in the light of an Austin-based speech-act theoretical framework. We first argue that such a framework can be applied not only to… read more
2018 Argumentation as a dimension of discourse: The case of news articles Cognitive Perspectives on Genre, Vergaro, Carla (ed.), pp. 602–630 | Article
The aim of this paper is to explore the status of argumentative discourse. We argue that argumentation can contribute to instances of different discourse genres, regardless of whether it is functional to their purposes. By analyzing examples from the daily press in the light of an approach to… read more
2014 Certainty and uncertainty in assertive speech acts Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts, Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari (eds.), pp. 31–58 | Article
We begin by considering three main philosophical accounts of assertion, showing that each emphasizes specific aspects of it while leaving others aside, and then proceed to offering a more comprehensive speech-act theoretic account of assertion, which owes much to Austin’s approach to illocutionary… read more
2012 Classifying illocutionary acts, or, a tale of Theory and Praxis Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren, Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 39–52 | Article
I became interested in the problem of the classification of illocutionary acts in the framework of my uneasiness about the Fact-Value and Theory-Praxis dichotomies. In my decades-long research on it, I defended Austin’s classification and reformulated it, applying my reformulation fruitfully to… read more
2011 Analytical philosophy: Ordinary language philosophy Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics, Sbisà, Marina, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 11–25 | Article
2011 Analytical philosophy: Ordinary language philosophy Handbook of Pragmatics: 2011 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Miscellaneous
2011 John L. Austin Handbook of Pragmatics: 2011 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2011 John L. Austin Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics, Sbisà, Marina, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 26–37 | Article
2011 Introduction Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics, Sbisà, Marina, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2009 Speech act theory Key Notions for Pragmatics, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 229–244 | Article
2007 How to read Austin Pragmatics 17:3, pp. 461–473 | Article
The goal of this paper is a reassessment of the contributions provided by John L. Austin’s book “How to Do Things with Words” to pragmatics. It discusses some assumptions belonging to the received reading of the volume, as regards its aim and structure, the conceptions of illocution and of… read more
2007 How to conceive of the other's point of view: Considerations from a Case Study in Trieste The Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life, Millar, Sharon and John Wilson (eds.), pp. 153–171 | Article
2006 Speech act theory Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Article
2006 Communicating citizenship in verbal interaction: Principles of a speech act oriented discourse analysis Analysing Citizenship Talk: Social positioning in political and legal decision-making processes, Hausendorf, Heiko and Alfons Bora (eds.), pp. 151–180 | Article
2006 Analytical philosophy Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Article
2002 Cognition and narrativity in speech act sequences Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction, Fetzer, Anita and Christiane Meierkord (eds.), pp. 71–97 | Article
2000 John L. Austin Handbook of Pragmatics: 1998 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article
1995 Analytical philosophy Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 28–36 | Article
1995 Speech act theory Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 495–506 | Article
1992 Speech Acts, Effects and Responses (On) Searle on Conversation: Compiled and introduced by Herman Parret and Jef Verschueren, Searle, John R., Herman Parret and Jef Verschueren, pp. 101–112 | Article
1985 Manipulation et sanction dans la dynamique des actes de langage Exigences et perspectives de la sémiotique: Recueil d'hommages pour A.J. Greimas. / Aims and Prospects of Semiotics. Essays in honor of A.J. Greimas, Parret, Herman et Hans-George Ruprecht (dir.), pp. 529–538 | Article