Postmodern thought has developed an “a/theology” built on the premise that the author/Author is dead, leading to a pluralistic hermeneutic. However, speech act theory in a Christian interpretive approach recognizes that “the Father is the locator, the Son is his preeminent illocution…(and) the Holy Spirit—the condition and power of receiving the sender’s message—is God the perlocutor, the reason that his words do not return to him empty.”
Vanhoozer in Osborne, 495.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Speech Act Theory
J.L. Austin proposed in How to Do Things with Words (1962) that there are three levels of language: locutionary, in which meaning is presented (“go home”); illocutionary, in which an action occurs (a command or request); and perlocutionary, in which an effect is caused on the hearer/reader (departure).
Grant Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2006), 494.
Grant Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2006), 494.
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