TY - JOUR

T1 - Voice and bodily deixis as manifestation of performativity in written texts

AU - Proskurin, Sergey

AU - Feshchenko, Vladimir

N1 - Funding: This research was funded by grant no. 14–28–00130 of the Russian Science Foundation. The project was carried out at the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences.

PY - 2019/3/1

Y1 - 2019/3/1

N2 - This article deals with voice and bodily deixis as manifestations of performativity in written texts. A speech act of origin presents as both vocal and performative events. Ritual matrixes of culture contain performative complexes, as suggested by Austin. Such performative nuclei are neither true nor false, that is, their negation cannot be logically inferred from true premises. The term deixis describes the performative moment of the utterance, its active and transformative force. The first embodied deictic utterance in Western history would be the biblical phrase "And the word made flesh." It is the first mythopoetical performative denoting the bodily incarnation of logos. In the article, the term bodily deixis is considered against the background of experimental poetry of E.E. Cummings.

AB - This article deals with voice and bodily deixis as manifestations of performativity in written texts. A speech act of origin presents as both vocal and performative events. Ritual matrixes of culture contain performative complexes, as suggested by Austin. Such performative nuclei are neither true nor false, that is, their negation cannot be logically inferred from true premises. The term deixis describes the performative moment of the utterance, its active and transformative force. The first embodied deictic utterance in Western history would be the biblical phrase "And the word made flesh." It is the first mythopoetical performative denoting the bodily incarnation of logos. In the article, the term bodily deixis is considered against the background of experimental poetry of E.E. Cummings.

KW - bodily deixis

KW - performativity

KW - voice

KW - written text

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U2 - 10.1515/sem-2017-0133

DO - 10.1515/sem-2017-0133

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85060677614

VL - 2019

SP - 317

EP - 334

JO - Semiotica

JF - Semiotica

SN - 0037-1998

IS - 227

ER -