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
The question of which conditions and rules are required for successful conversation is important for a speech act analysis
As for these appropriateness conditions, I would like to remind my reader again that my speech act approach recognises the importance of contexts, namely historical, social, cultural, religious, linguistic, literary, and so on, because the contexts for a specific speech situation play an important role in interpretation, especially in determining the meaning of a certain utterance, passage or section
When the author and the reader are not observing the Cooperative Principle and other principles, the notion of implicatures will help the reader determine the meaning of an utterance
Summary
The question of which conditions and rules are required for successful conversation is important for a speech act analysis. Grice suggests the Cooperative Principle; Leech submits Interpersonal and Textual Rhetorics; Bach and Harnish pose three presumptions and mutual contextual beliefs, and Pratt adds the notion of display text. These concepts are all realisations of appropriateness conditions. I shall attempt to identify the most plausible contexts for John 9, summarising the views of other scholars, conversing with them,[1] and providing my own assessments, where necessary.[2] It is hoped that identifying the most plausible contexts could form a basis for a moderate example of the attempt to combine the use of historical and literary approaches. When the author and the reader are not observing the Cooperative Principle and other principles, the notion of implicatures will help the reader determine the meaning of an utterance
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