TY - BOOK AU - Duffy,Mervyn TI - How language, ritual and sacraments work: according to John Austin, Jurgen Habermas and Louis-Marie Chauvet T2 - Tesi gregoriana. Serie teologia SN - 8878390380 AV - BX2200.D858.H695 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Roma PB - Editrice Pontificia Universita gregoriana KW - Sacraments (Liturgy) KW - Sacraments KW - Catholic Church KW - Speech acts (Linguistics) N1 - Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Pontifical Gregorian University, 2005); What Austin Offers to This Thesis --; A Biographical Sketch of Jürgen Habermas --; Habermass Method --; The Structure of Symbol and Sacrament --; The Symbolic Order which Mediates Reality --; Symbolic Exchange --; The Act of Symbolization --; Performative and Constative --; Salvation History as Communicative Action; 2 N2 - The study draws on three principle authors: John Austin was a british philosopher who developed Speech Act theory, in which utterances are understood as actions rather than merely descriptions. Jurgen Habermas is a german philosopher-sociologist who developed Austin's ideas in his theory of communicative action. Habermas identifies himself as a neo-marxist but as the philosopher of discourse he has engaged with thinkers across the political and religious spectrum. ~AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/How-Language-Ritual-Sacraments-Work/dp/8878390380/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=9788878390386&qid=1599938002&sr=8-1 ER -