Download or read book Sbisà on Speech as Action written by Laura Caponetto and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume provides a thorough look into Marina Sbisà’s distinctive, Austinian-inspired approach to speech acts. By gathering original essays from a world-class lineup of philosophers of language, linguists, social epistemologists, action theorists, and communication scholars, the collection provides the first comprehensive critical treatment of Sbisa’s outstanding contribution to speech act theory.