La pensée de J. L. Austin revisitée. Performativité et pouvoir symbolique du langage. Entretien avec Bruno AMBROISE

The Thought of J.L. Austin Revisited: Performativity and the Symbolic Power of Language. An Interview with Bruno Ambroise

Abstract

Bruno Ambroise is a researcher in the philosophy of language at the CNRS, affiliated with the Institute of Legal and Philosophical Sciences of the Sorbonne (ISJPS, UMR 8103: CNRS/University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). His work focuses on the history and
epistemology of speech act theory from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining philosophy with the humanities and social sciences (law, anthropology, sociology, linguistics). A specialist in the work of J. L. Austin, he authored What is a Speech Act? (Vrin, 2008), edited thevolume On the Action of Discourse: The Concept of Speech Act through the Lens of Its Histories (ISTE Éditions, 2018), and co-edited Textes clés de philosophie du langage, Vol. 1 : Signification, vérité et réalité. [with S. Laugier] (Vrin,2009) ; Textes clés de philosophie du langage, Vol. 2 : Sens, usage et contexte. [with S. Laugier] (Vrin, 2011) ; Le mental et le social, [with Ch. Chauviré] (Editions de l’EHESS, 2013) ; Langage et politique : l’efficacité du langage en question, [with B. Geay] (P. U. du Septentrion, 2016).