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- Title
Język i działanie. Performatywność słowa według Karola Irzykowskiego.
- Authors
Gołębiewska, Maria
- Abstract
The article is dedicated to the themes present in the performative theory which may also be found in the diversified works by Karol Irzykowski, writer, journalist, literary, theatre, and film critic, theoretician of literature and film. The aim of the article is to analyze Irzykowski's claims, which preceded John L. Austin 's theses related to language considered as action. Due to chronological factors, it would be difficult to ascribe Austin's theories to Irzykowski, and to employ the term 'performative theory' directly to the latter's views. However, it is possible to find a certain convergence of the conceptions of the two discussed authors and to discover performative aspects, i.e., 'performativity' in Irzykowski 's works. Performativity is a feature of various acts of utterance and expression performed by the subject using not only language, but also other sign systems. Austin's theory allows to put the multifaceted output of irzykowski in a certain order and, in particular, identify the premises and theses regarding the role of language and other semiotic systems, such as painting and film imagery, as well as theatrical gestures. Irzykowski provides varied characteristics of actions performed with words in everyday communication, politics and education, journalism and literary criticism, drama, prose, and poetry. His main performative postulate is to adopt an innovative approach to language while preserving its comprehensibility to its everyday users.
- Subjects
PRESS criticism; FILM critics; LITERARY criticism; THEORISTS; GESTURE; AXIOMS
- Publication
Ethos (0860-8024), 2021, Vol 34, Issue 134, p239
- ISSN
0860-8024
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12887/34-2021-2-134-15