Normativity and Variety of Speech Actions

Macie Witek is professor of philosophy and head of Institute of Philosophy, University of Szczecin, Poland. His main interest is in speech act theory and he has published numerous papers in the field. He has also authored a monograph Spór o podstawy teorii czynności mowy [The Dispute over the Foundations of Speech Act Theory] (2011). Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka is professor of linguistics at Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz, Poland. Her main research interests are linguistic performativity and the language of the law. She is editor of Research in Language, an international linguistics volume and author and editor of papers and books which include a monograph From Speech Acts to Speech Actions (2013).

Editorial to the Special Issue of Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities: Normativity and Variety of Speech Actions
Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka and Maciej Witek
PART 1
Normative Aspects of Speech Actions
1 Varieties of Speech Act Norms
Marina Sbisà
2 Commitment and Obligation in Speech Act Theory
Brian Ball
3 Coordination and Norms in Illocutionary Interaction
Maciej Witek
PART 2
Varieties of Speech Actions
4 Speech Acts in Discourse
Anita Fetzer
5 Silence as Speech Action, Silence as Non-speech Action. A Study of Some Silences in Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande
Dennis Kurzon
6 The Dynamics of Conversation: Fixing the Force in Irony. A Case Study
Cristina Corredor
7 Forms of Aggressive Speech Actions in Public Communication
Milada Hirschová
8 A Theory That Beats the Theory? Lineages, the Growth of Signs, and Dynamic Legal Interpretation
Marcin Matczak
9 Are Implicative Verbs Presupposition Triggers? Evidence from Polish
Mateusz Włodarczyk
Index