Interpretive Conventions by Steven Mailloux

Author:Steven Mailloux
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-09-26T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

A Typology of Conventions

We must notice that the illocutionary act is a conventional act: an act done as conforming to a convention.

—J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words

But for every convention in the hand, there are two in the bush.

—A. R. Louch, Explanation and Human Action

Since communication is only one kind of human activity accounted for by conventions, we can ask how communicative conventions relate to other conventions of social action. Exactly which conventions are relevant to reading and interpretation? Do the communicative conventions for speech acts and literary reading function in the same way in textual interpretation? To answer these questions, I will broaden my analysis and provide a general typology of conventions. The subsequent chapter will propose a comprehensive theory of interpretive conventions.

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