Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The Performative Utterance in Hamlet

·      Three categories of Language: the locutionary force, theability of language to deliver a message, the force of mutual intelligibility; the illocutionaryforce, what is done in being said, such as denying a request, giving an order, etc.; and the perlocutionary force, what is achieved by being said, the consequences of one's utterance, suchas an order being followed (or refused).

·      These are categories in distinguishing the differences of language or as deBoer says, how to use words to portray meaning instead of just pronouncing.

·      SELF-overhearing could be the reason why Shakespeare’s characters develop and grow in the tragedy’s. The hearing of one’s self, helps them overcome stresses.

·      The performances that Hamlet had held through out the play are an indirect way of language actions. The plays use words to create a feeling without actually performing or acting out on thus said words.


·      The act of doing something is different from the act of intentions.

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