Prekursorzy performatywności. Język jako działanie u Étienne’a Bonnot de Condillaca i Jeana-Jacques’a Rousseau

Michał Gniadek

doi:10.18778/8331-126-5

Precursors of Performativity. Language as Action in the Works by Étienne Bonnot de Condillac and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Michał Gniadek

Jagiellonian University

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7800-7200 (unauthenticated)

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Contrasts in humanities: literature, language, culture

Pages: 15-28

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-126-5.02

Keywords: literature, literary studies, language, linguistics, contrast

Published: 6 April 2023

Categories: Foreign language studies, Open Access

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The present paper analyses the concept of the performativity of human language in the philosophical writings by Étienne Bonnot de Condillac and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The first part of the text is devoted to the idea of langage d’action and its significance for Condillac‘s epistemology and theory of language; whereas the social and political functions of human speech, presented in the works of Jean- Jacques Rousseau, are interpreted in the second part of the paper. Ultimately, it seems that for both Condillac and Rousseau human language is not just a mere thinking tool, but also a way of changing and improving our reality.

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Gniadek, Michał. 2023. “Precursors of Performativity. Language As Action in the Works by Étienne Bonnot De Condillac and Jean-Jacques Rousseau”. In Contrasts in Humanities: Literature, Language, Culture, edited by Eliza Sasin and Anita Staroń, 15-28. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-126-5.02.