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Semeia 41: Speech Act Theory and Biblical Criticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to...

long as we continue to look at them from our usual perspectives. Yet, adopting such a different conceptual framework is not easy. It necessarily involves transgressing taboos! What are the fundamental characteristics of the conceptual framework espoused by speech act theory? Searle points them out in his book on Intentionality which “is to provide a foundation for (his) two earlier books, Speech Acts and Expression and Meaning” (1983: vii). In these two books Searle had constantly emphasized that
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