'When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?'-Judith
Butler, Excitable Speech Excitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of …

In Beyond Words, Steven Connor seeks to understand spoken human language outside
words, a realm that encompasses the sounds we make that bring depth, meaning, and …

In this book, Douglas Robinson introduces a new distinction between'constative'and'
performative'linguistics, arguing that Austin's distinction can be used to understand linguistic …

Oral communication is quite different in its spontaneity and communicative power from
textual and visual communication. Culturally-bounded expectations of ways of speaking and …

Political theorists and philosophers of language are alike in wanting to know answers to
certain questions about speech: What is speech for, and why does it matter? JS Mill took the …

The project of cultural studies has, for some time, lacked a focus. The once critical idea of
paying attention to popular culture and its investments, now comfortably institutionalized …

First published in 1984. For those who have heard Max Atkinson expounding his theses
about the nature of stimulus and response for political speakers seeking applause, have …

We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the
speech in question brings those harms about? Mary Kate McGowan identifies a previously …

Putting aside questions of truth and falsehood, the old" talk is cheap" maxim carries as much
weight as ever. Indeed, perhaps more. For one need not be an expert in irony or sarcasm to …

Recent proposals to regulate hate speech on campus, in the workplace, and in other public
domains have spawned a set of ambivalent political consequences and raised crucial …