On the Performative and the Pragmatic. Performative vs. Pragmatic Self-Contradictions
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Petra Hedberg
Abstract
The difference between performative and pragmatic parts of speech and action is the central theme of this paper. This difference will also be used in order to elucidate the difference between pragmatic and performative self-contradictions. The term ‘performative self-contradiction’ works as a key-concept in Apel's and Habermas's positions, although neither of these philosophers have focused explicitly on the difference between performative and pragmatic levels of communicative action. Both of these philosophers have been incorporating certain central terms from Austin and Searle in their works. The paper will, therefore, also turn to Austin and Searle in elucidating Apel's and Habermas's appropriation of central terms from speech act theory. Neither Austin nor Searle seem to have been dealt explicitly with the topic of performative vs. pragmatic. Clarifying this difference, hence, may be valuable to both formal/ transcendental pragmatics and speech act theories.
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