Abstract

ROZAS, Sergio. Language and performativity. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2016, vol.6, n.2, pp.280-298. ISSN 1688-7026.

The study reviews different types of linguistically mediated interactions, and the underlying rationalities present in processes of human action and communication. The focus is on John L. Austin’s Speech Act Theory, and its deconstruction and resignification by Jaques Derrida and Judith Butler. Also considered are the analytical proposal and new categories provided by Jürgen Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action. His approach to the concept of Lebenswelt, his critical reflections on Weber’s rationalities, as well as subsequent reformulations of them that emerge in the introduction of a new communicative rationality, are here considered the interpretative model for the notions of action and communication.

Keywords : language; action; communication; rationalities.

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