Marina Sbisà

Research

       

Books

Austinian Themes. Illocution, Action, Knowledge, Truth, and Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 376.

Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 327.

Detto non detto. Le forme della comunicazione implicita [Said not said. The forms of implicit communication]. Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2007 (2^nd ed. 2010), pp. 212

Linguaggio, ragione, interazione. Per una teoria pragmatica degli atti linguistici [Language, reason, interaction. Towards a pragmatic speech act theory]. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1989. 2^nd edition as an e-book, Trieste: Eut, 2009 (http://hdl.handle.net/10077/3390)

La mamma di carta. Per una critica dello stereotipo materno [The paper mother. Towards a critique of the maternal stereotype]. Milano: Emme, 1984, pp. 115

Wittgenstein. Roma: Astrolabio, 1975, pp. 143

 

Edited Books

Pragmatics of Speech Actions (Handbooks of Pragmatics 2), ed. by M. Sbisà and K. Turner. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 2013, pp. 733

Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 10), ed. by M.Sbisà, J-O. Östman and J. Verschueren. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011, pp. 318

Come sapere il parto. Storia, scenari, linguaggi [How to be knowledgeable about childbirth. History, scenarios, languages], ed. by M. Sbisà. Torino: Rosenberg & Sellier, 1992, pp. 237

J.L. Austin, Come fare cose con le parole. Italian Edition by Carlo Penco and Marina Sbisà. Translation by Carla Villata. Genova: Marietti, 1987

I figli della scienza [Children of Science], ed. by M. Sbisà. Milano: Emme, 1985, pp.153-69

Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics, ed. by H. Parret, M. Sbisà and J. Verschueren. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1981, pp. 854

Gli atti linguistici. Aspetti e problemi di filosofia del linguaggio [Speech acts. Aspects and Issues in the Philosophy of Language], ed. by M. Sbisà. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1978, pp. 298

J.L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (2^nd revised edition by J.O. Urmson and M. Sbisà). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.

 

Articles and Chapters in English

(for the whole list of articles and chapters, see the corresponding page in Italian)

Is commenting an expositive illocutionary act? Pragmatics & Cognition 31, 2024, pp. 294-317.

Replies to contributors. In L. Caponetto  and P. Labinaz (eds), Sbisà on Speech as Action. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 299-332.

Agency and Identity in the framework of an interactional approach. In G. De Anna  and M. Dozzi (eds), Political Identity and the Metaphysics of Polities. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Presupposition and implicature: Varieties of implicit meaning in explicitation practices. Journal of Pragmatics 182, 2021, pp. 176-188

(Im)politeness and the human subject. In Chaoqun Xie (ed.), The Philosophy of (Im)politeness, Cham: Springer, 2021, pp. 157-177.

(with P. Labinaz) The problem of knowledge dissemination in social network discussions. Journal of Pragmatics 175, 2021, pp. 67-80

(with P. Labinaz) Speech acts and the dissemination of knowledge in social networks. In Hartmut Haberland, Francisco Yus and Chaoqun Xie (eds.), Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and Practice, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2021, pp. 145-172.

Assertion among the speech acts. In S. Goldberg (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Assertion. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190675233.013.7.

Philosophical pragmatics. In Andreas H. Jucker, Klaus P. Schneider and Wolfram Bublitz (eds.), Methods in Pragmatics (Handbooks of Pragmatics 10), 133-154. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2018.

Varieties of speech act norms. In M. Witek and I. Witczak-Plisiecka (eds.), Normativity and Variety of Speech Actions (Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, 112), pp. 23-50. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

Ways to be concerned with gender in philosophy. Phenomenology & Mind 15, 2018, pp. 132-145.

(with Paolo Labinaz) Argumentation as a dimension of discourse: The case of news articles, Pragmatics & Cognition 25 (3), 2018, pp. 602-630.

Implicitness in normative texts. In F. Poggi and A. Capone (eds.), Pragmatics and Law. Practical and Theoretical Perspectives (Series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology), Springer, 2017, pp. 23-42.

Diving into the Perfect Storm. Rivista di Estetica 57 (1), Special Issue "Discrimination in Philosophy" ed. by Vera Tripodi,  2017, pp. 134-150.

Austin on Language and Action. In Brian Garvey (ed.), J.L. Austin on Language, 2014, pp. 13-31.

Evidentiality and illocution. Intercultural Pragmatics 11 (3), 2014, pp. 463-483. 

The Austinian conception of illocution and its implications for value judgement and social ontology, Ethics & Politics 16 (2), 2014, pp. 619-631.

(with Paolo Labinaz) Certainty and uncertainty in assertive speech acts. In A. Zuczkowski, R. Bongelli, I. Riccioni, C., Canestrari (eds.), Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Texts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014, pp. 31-58.

Some remarks about speech act pluralism. In A. Capone et al. (eds.), Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy, Springer, 2013, pp. 227-243.

Locution, illocution, perlocution. In M. Sbisà and K. Turner (eds.), Pragmatics of Speech Actions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2013, pp.25-75.

Austin on meaning and use. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 8 (1), 2012, pp. 5-16.

Classifying illocutionary acts, or, a tale of Theory and Praxis. In M. Meeuwis, J.-O. Östman (eds.), Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012, pp. 39-52.

J.L. Austin's linguistic method: towards a reassessment. In Sandra Laugier, Christophe Al-Saleh (eds.), John L. Austin et la philosophie du langage ordinaire, Hildesheim: Olms, 2011, pp. 109-135.

Analytical philosophy - Ordinary language philosophy. In M. Sbisà, J.-O. Östman and J. Verschueren (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011, pp. 11-25.

John L. Austin. In M. Sbisà, J.-O. Östman and J. Verschueren (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011, pp. 26-37.

Review of: François Cooren, Action and Agency in Dialogue. Passion, incarnation and ventriloquism. 2010. Language and Dialogue 1 (2), 2011, pp. 320-327.

Austin, J.L. In Louise Cummings (ed.) The Pragmatics Encyclopedia. London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 28-30.

Contextualism without incompleteness. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 5, 2009, pp. 55-72.

Uptake and conventionality in illocution. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, 5, 2009, pp. 33-52.

Illocution and silencing. In Bruce Fraser, Ken Turner (eds.), Language in life, and a life in language: Jacob Mey – A Festschrift. Bradford: Emerald, pp. 351-357.

Speech act theory. In J. Verschueren and J.-O. Östman (eds.), Key Notions for Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009, pp. 229-244.

How to read Austin. Pragmatics 17, 2007, pp. 461-472.

On argumentative rationality. Anthropology & Philosophy 8, 2007, pp. 89-99.

Pathways to explicitness. Lingue e Linguaggio 6, 2007, pp. 101-120.

(with Patrizia Vascotto) How to conceive of the other's point of view: considerations from a case study in Trieste. In Sharon Millar, John Wilson (eds.), The Discourse of Europe. Talk and Text in Everyday Life, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007, pp. 153-171.

Speech acts without propositions? Grazer Philosophische Studien 72, 2006, pp. 155-178.

After Grice: neo- and post- perspectives. Journal of Pragmatics 38, 2006, pp. 2223-2234.

Two conceptions of rationality in Grice's theory of implicature. In E. Baccarini, S. Prijić-SamarŽija (eds.), Rationality of Belief and Action, Rijeka: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy, 2006, pp. 233-247.

Communicating citizenship in verbal interaction: principles of a speech-act oriented discourse analysis. In H. Hausendorf and A. Bora (eds.), Analysing Citizenship Talk, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006, pp. 151-180.

Against identity: a family resemblance perspective on intercultural relations. In Kulturen: Streit-Anaylse-Dialog/ Cultures: Conflict-Analysis-Dialogue. 29. International Wittgenstein Symposium, ISSN 1022-3398, volume 14 (ed. by Georg Gasser, Christian Kanzian, Edmund Runggaldier), pp. 295-297.

Review of: Claudia Bianchi, La dipendenza contestuale. Per una teoria pragmatica del significato, 2001. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (11), 2004, pp. 2101-2105.

Belief reports: what role for contexts? Facta Philosophica 5 (2), 2003, pp. 257-76.

Subject and Gender in H.D.'s Trilogy. In M. Camboni (ed.) H.D.'s Poetry: The Meanings That Words Hide (Ams Studies in Modern Literature, No 24), New York: AMS Press, 2003, pp. 91-113.

Speech acts in context. Language & Communication 22, 2002, pp. 421-436.

Cognition and narrativity in speech act sequences. In A. Fetzer and C. Meierkord (eds.), Rethinking sequentiality, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002, pp. 71-98.

Intentions from the other side. In Giovanna Cosenza (ed.), Paul Grice's Heritage, Turnhout: Brepols, 2001, pp.185-206.

Illocutionary force and degrees of strength in language use. Journal of Pragmatics 33, 2001, pp. 1791-1814.

What is Grice's Cooperative Principle? In Diego Marconi (ed.), Knowledge and Meaning. Topics in Analytic Philosophy, Vercelli: Mercurio, 2000, pp. 235-53.

Act. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9 (1-2), Special Issue "Language Matters in Anthropology: a Lexicon for the Millennium", ed. by A. Duranti, 2000, pp. 9-11.

Presupposition, implicature and context in text understanding. In P. Bouquet, L. Serafini, P. Brézillon, M. Benerecetti, F. Castellani (eds.), Modeling and Using Context, Berlin: Springer, 1999, pp. 324-338.

Ideology and the persuasive use of presupposition. In J. Verschueren (ed.), Language and Ideology. Selected Papers from the 6th International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, 1999.

The ideal of perfect delimitation versus the reality of family resemblances. In Božidar Jakšić (ed.), Tolerancija/Tolerance, Beograd: Republika, 1999, pp. 53-63.

The feminine subject and female body in discourse about childbirth. European Journal of Women's Studies 3, 1996, pp. 363-76.

The relationship between argumentation and explanation in the framework of a speech-act analysis of verbal interaction. In F.H. van Eemeren, R. Grootendorst, J.A. Blair and Ch. A. Willard (eds.), Proceedings of the III ISSA Conference on Argumentation, Vol. 3: Reconstruction and Application. Amsterdam: Sic Sat 1995, pp.3-15.

Language and dialogue in the framework of the analytical philosophy of ordinary language. In E. Weigand (ed.), Concepts of dialogue considered from the perspective of different disciplines. Tubingen: Niemeyer 1994, pp.159-70.

Speech acts, effects and responses. In J. R. Searle et al., (On) Searle on Conversation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1992, pp. 101-11.

At the origins of illocution. In Igor Ž. Žagar (ed.), Speech Acts: Fiction or Reality? Ljubljana: IPrA Distribution Center for Yugoslavia, 1991, pp. 9-16.

(with C. Bazzanella and C. Caffi) Scalar dimensions of illocutionary force. In I.Ž. Žagar (ed.), Speech Acts: Fiction or Reality? Ljubljana: IPrA Distribution Center for Yugoslavia, 1991, pp. 63-76.

Speech acts and the expression of affect. Grazer Linguistische Studien 33/34, 1990, pp. 279-95.

Remarques sur la conversation en tribunal. In J. Cosnier, N. Gelas, c. Kerbrat-Orecchioni (eds.), Echanges sur la conversation, Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1988, pp. 211-220.

Speech acts and context change. In T. Ballmer and W. Wildgen (eds.), Process linguistics. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1987, pp. 252-79.

Indicative mood, illocutionary force, and truth: some points for a discussion. Paper read at the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987. Duisburg: L.A.U.D., 1987.

Acts of explanation: a speech act analysis. In F.H. van Eemeren, R. Grootendorst, J.A. Blair and Ch.A. Willard (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Argumentation. Dordrecht: Foris, 1987, Vol. 2, pp. 7-17.

Some remarks on women's language. In Pragmatics and Linguistics. Festschrift for Jacob L. Mey. Odense: Odense University Press, 1986, pp. 173-78.

On illocutionary types. Journal of pragmatics 8, 1984, pp.93-112.

Directivity and sequencing. In V. D'Urso and P. Leonardi (eds.), Discourse analysis and natural rhetorics. Padova: Cleup, 1984, pp. 143-51.

Some remarks on belief, confidence, and cooperation. In H. Parret (ed.) On believing. Epistemological and semiotic approaches. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1983, pp. 302-15.

(with Paolo Fabbri) Models (?) for a pragmatic analysis. Working Papers and Pre-publications 91/A, Urbino: Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e Linguistica, 1980. Revised ed. in Journal of Pragmatics 4, 1980, pp. 301-19.

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