Dialogue as speech act and discourse: methods to understand what interreligious dialogue does with reference to a common word between us and you.: An article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies
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Author(s)Vebjorn L. Horsfjord
PublisherJournal of Ecumenical Studies
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From the author: This essay suggests that speech act theory can provide tools to understand better how interreligious dialogue works and how words and actions are intimately connected. Following a brief introduction of speech act theory as developed by John Austin and others, with the key terminology of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts, it applies this in an analysis of three examples taken from key texts of the Common Word dialogue process. This process consists of an exchange of letters and a series of conferences between senior Muslim and Christian leaders that started in 2007 with the Muslim open letter, A Common Word between Us and You. First, the essay looks at the illocutionary force of the publication in The New York Times of a response from Christian leaders produced at Yale University and suggests that it was highly significant in giving importance to A Common Word. The second example is a comparison of the opening greetings of three documents that brings to light very different illocutionary acts that incidentally also characterize the three texts. The third example is concerned with A Common Word's treatment of shirk. Speech act analysis of central texts shows how different readers may construe the same utterance as very different illocutionary acts. The essay suggests that what is at work in A Common Word is a manipulation of conventions determining speech acts, eventually suggesting that the focus on acts may be a springboard for further analysis of the potential for action by the actors involved in dialogue.
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Title: Dialogue as speech act and discourse: methods to understand what interreligious dialogue does with reference to a common word between us and you.
Author: Vebjorn L. Horsfjord
Publication:Journal of Ecumenical Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2013
Publisher: Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Volume: 48 Issue: 3 Page: 289(10)
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
From the author: This essay suggests that speech act theory can provide tools to understand better how interreligious dialogue works and how words and actions are intimately connected. Following a brief introduction of speech act theory as developed by John Austin and others, with the key terminology of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts, it applies this in an analysis of three examples taken from key texts of the Common Word dialogue process. This process consists of an exchange of letters and a series of conferences between senior Muslim and Christian leaders that started in 2007 with the Muslim open letter, A Common Word between Us and You. First, the essay looks at the illocutionary force of the publication in The New York Times of a response from Christian leaders produced at Yale University and suggests that it was highly significant in giving importance to A Common Word. The second example is a comparison of the opening greetings of three documents that brings to light very different illocutionary acts that incidentally also characterize the three texts. The third example is concerned with A Common Word's treatment of shirk. Speech act analysis of central texts shows how different readers may construe the same utterance as very different illocutionary acts. The essay suggests that what is at work in A Common Word is a manipulation of conventions determining speech acts, eventually suggesting that the focus on acts may be a springboard for further analysis of the potential for action by the actors involved in dialogue.
Citation Details
Title: Dialogue as speech act and discourse: methods to understand what interreligious dialogue does with reference to a common word between us and you.
Author: Vebjorn L. Horsfjord
Publication:Journal of Ecumenical Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2013
Publisher: Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Volume: 48 Issue: 3 Page: 289(10)
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
