Abstract

Book Title: The story of Jesus and the blind man: A speech act reading of John 9 Book Author: Hisayasu Ito Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto City, Japan. Acta Theologica , Supplementum 21 2015.

Highlights

  • To begin with, I shall briefly explain my own speech act approach

  • Since the focus of this section is, as mentioned earlier, to set up my own methodological framework formulated from diverse aspects of speech act theory, I shall not attempt to provide a detailed presentation of the concepts, history and development of this theory, because the majority of the above theories are well documented.[3]

  • The following advice by Du Plessis (1985:31) concerning the Politeness Principle is relevant in this instance: “In our present study where we deal with texts which are the product of a culture very far removed in time and customs of our own, the principle should be implemented with extreme caution.”

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Summary

METHODOLOGY

I shall briefly explain my own speech act approach. As Patte (1988:88) mentions, “speech act theory does not offer any clear method which could be directly applied to the study of the texts”; it is crucial to establish one’s own methodological framework before applying this theory. Since speech act theory itself provides many different views on its main topics,[1] I shall limit myself to utilising primarily Searle’s speech act theory in conjunction with Bach and Harnish’s taxonomy and mutual contextual beliefs (MCBs), Grice’s principles of conversation, Leech’s pragmatic approach (Interpersonal and Textual Rhetorics), Pratt’s display text and Van Dijk’s macrospeech‐act structures. Since the focus of this section is, as mentioned earlier, to set up my own methodological framework formulated from diverse aspects of speech act theory, I shall not attempt to provide a detailed presentation of the concepts, history and development of this theory, because the majority of the above theories are well documented.[3] I shall note some important points and introduce new concepts that need more clarification for my readers. My own framework can be divided into two main categories, namely speech act theory and its related approaches (cf. section 1), and other approaches (cf. section 2)

Speech act theory
Indirect speech act
Taxonomy
Mutual contextual beliefs
Principles of conversation
Cooperative Principle and four maxims
Textual Rhetoric
11 Be economical
14 Be perspicuous
Interpersonal Rhetoric
Pratt’s display text
Van Dijk’s macrospeech‐act structures
Macrostructures
Macrorules
Ironic speech acts
Verifying steps for identifying ironic utterances
Situational irony
Prove it using Essential Conditions:
Notes on the outline
Conclusion
INCORPORATION OF OTHER APPROACHES
Colon analysis
Basic procedures
Explanation of the numbering system used in the schematic presentations
Narrative criticism
Rhetorical levels and associated personages
Reader‐response criticism
Temporal quality of narrative
Victimisation of the implied reader
Historical criticism
Social‐scientific criticism
Advantages of speech act analysis
Disadvantages of speech act analysis
Previous New Testament studies utilising speech act theory
Contributions to be made by the study
Basic reading scheme

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