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Tables of Contents for The Organizing Property of Communication
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
 
Preface
xiii
 
James R. Taylor
Introduction
1
8
Part I. Theoretical Background
9
70
Speech Act Theory
11
24
Austin, or When Saying Becomes Doing
13
5
Constative vs. Performative: Success and Limits
14
2
Locution vs. Illocution and Perlocution: An Unfinished Reflection
16
2
Searle, or the Systematization of Speech Acts
18
17
The Constitutive Rules and the Principle of Expressibility
19
1
Utterance, Propositional and Illocutionary Acts
20
2
The Meaning of Illocutionary Acts and the Problem of Uptake
22
3
Typology of Speech Acts
25
3
Vanderveken's Contribution
28
2
Indirect Speech Acts
30
5
Critiques Addressed toward Speech Act Theory
35
22
Derrida: The Iterability of Speech Acts
36
6
Pierre Livet: The Undecidability of Speech Acts and the Virtual Community
42
3
Bach and Harnish: A Change of Perspective
45
6
The Hearer's Interpretive Position
34
12
The Speech Act Schema (SAS) and the Debate with Searle
46
4
What We Can Learn From This Controversy
50
1
Pierre Bourdieu: Speech Acts and Institution
51
6
Conclusion
55
2
Narrativity and Speech Acts
57
22
Greimas' Narrative Theory
58
16
The Basic Tension: Subject vs. Object
60
1
The Two Basic Utterances: Utterances Describing a State vs. Utterances of Doing
60
1
Utterances Describing a State
61
2
Utternaces of Doing
63
2
The Different Types of Communication of Objects
65
1
Communication Involving Only One Object
65
2
Communication Involving Two Objects
67
1
The Narrative Program and the Actantial Structure, or How to Organize our Universe
68
1
Modal Objects and Objects of Value
69
2
Narrative Program and Actantial Roles
71
3
Narrativity and Speech Acts
74
5
Conclusion
78
1
Part II. Toward a Model of the Organizing Property of Communication
79
138
The Semiotic Model of Illocutionary Acts
81
56
Redefinition of the Illocutionary Acts: Texts as Machines
81
7
Typology of Illocutionary Acts
88
36
The Primitive Dimensions of Speech Acts
92
1
The Productive Dimension of Speech Acts
92
5
The Attributive Dimension of Speech Acts
97
2
The Illocutionary Transformations
99
1
Assertive and Informative Transformations
100
4
Modal Illocutionary Transformations
104
8
Objective Illocutionary Transformations
112
10
Summary of the Main Points
122
2
The Ideal Conditions of Production of Speech Acts
124
13
The Ideal Conditions of Assertives and Informatives
125
3
The Ideal Conditions of Modal Illocutionary Acts
128
1
The Ideal Conditions of Directives
128
3
The Ideal Conditions of Accreditives
131
1
The Ideal Conditions of Commissives
132
1
The Ideal Conditions of Objectives
132
1
The Ideal Conditions of Declaratives
132
2
The Ideal Conditions of Expressives
134
1
Summary of the Main Points
134
3
The Semiotic Model of Perlocutionary Acts
137
34
Perlocutionary Transformations and Conditions of Satisfaction
137
5
A Semiotic Analysis of Indirectness
142
12
Indirect Directives
142
4
Indirect Accreditives
146
3
Indirect Commissives
149
1
Indirect Declaratives
150
1
Indirect Expressives
151
1
Summary of the Main Points
152
2
The Rhetorical and Procedural Form of Perlocutionary Transformations
154
14
Rhetoric as the Discursive Art of Perlocutionary Transformation
155
2
The Two Techniques of Rhetorical Transformations: Liaisons and Dissociations
157
4
The Perlocutionary Rhetorical Transformation and the Liaison/Dissociation Couple
161
4
Procedures as Silent Rhetoric
165
3
Summary of the Main Points
168
3
The Organizing Property of Communication
171
46
Bruno Latour and Michel Callon: Interobjectivity and Translation as the Foundations of Collectives
171
16
Latour and Interobjectivity
172
1
Interactionism Applies to Monkeys
172
1
The Nature of Framed Interaction: A Travel in Space and Time
173
2
Complex vs. Complicated Interactions
175
1
Objects as the Cement of Society
176
7
Callon and the Process of Translation
183
1
The Problematization Phase
183
1
The Interessement Phase
184
1
The Enrolment Phase
185
1
The Mobilization Phase
185
2
Translation and Treason
187
1
Speech Acts as Interactoriality and Translation
187
30
The Directives and Commissives or How to Start a Narrative
191
5
The Accreditives or the Process of Translation
196
9
The Declaratives or the Restance of Narratives
205
3
Acceptance, Sanction and Networks of Influence
208
9
Conclusion
217
6
Notes
223
20
References
243
12
Author Index
255
4
Subject Index
259