How to Do Things with Sanskrit: Speech Act Theory and the Oral Performance of Sacred Texts
It is now half a century since J. L. Austin published his seminal workHow to Do Things with Words, in which he first articulated his theory of speech acts. Since thenhis core idea that verbal utterances convey more than what is simply implied by the words alone has become axiomatic. In this paperI w...
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Brill
2015
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Year: 2015, Volume: 62, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 519-537 |
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Bhāgavata-kathā
Bhāgavata-purāṇa
speech act theory
iskcon
oral traditions
ritual language
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