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Hearing Mark's Endings has two foci: it represents an attempt to show that ancient popular texts are written to be read aloud, and further, develops an aurally attuned hermeneutic to interpret them by. The contents of the book include rhetorical readings of the ancient popular texts, by Xenophon of Ephesus: An Ephesian Tale , and the ending of Mark's Gospel. These readings, which highlight the aural nature of the texts, are followed by a methodological justification for using Speech Act Theory as a hermeneutical tool, and further readings, of Xenophon's romance, and three endings of the Gospel of Mark. The book concludes that Speech Act Theory has, indeed, much to offer to the interpretation of these texts. The particular usefulness of this work lies in the contribution it makes to New Testament hermeneutics, in the testing of a particular, underused methodology to illuminate ancient popular literature. It will prove to be useful to all those interested in interdisciplinary methodological studies of biblical and other ancient popular literature.

Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Philosophy --- Xenophon. - Ephesiaca.

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This study develops solutions to the problem of the linguistic handling of writing from a new perspective arising from the action-oriented nature of writing. The main theory is that writing does not compete with language, but is rather a component of it. The results of the study form a new theory on the relationship between language and writing.

Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Writing --- Chirography --- Handwriting --- Ciphers --- Penmanship --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Pragmatics (language). --- language. --- social actions. --- writing.

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This user-friendly introduction to a new 'performative' methodology in linguistic pragmatics breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine. Drawing on a wide spectrum of research and theory from the past thirty years in particular, Douglas Robinson presents a combination of 'action-oriented approaches' from sources such as J.L. Austin, H. Paul Grice, Harold Garfinkel and Erving Goffman.

Paying particular attention to language as drama, the group regulation of language use, individual resistance to these regulatory pressures and nonverbal comm

Conversation analysis. --- Performative (Philosophy). --- Pragmatics. --- Speech acts (Linguistics). --- Performative (Philosophy) --- Performativity (Philosophy) --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Analysis of conversation --- CA (Interpersonal communication) --- Conversational analysis --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Pragmalinguistics --- Oral communication --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Methodology --- Philosophy --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Conversation analysis --- Pragmatics