Publications
Relevance theory and indirect speech acts Ghent University
Antigone and the Law: Legal Theory and the Ambiguities of Performance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Rethinking Role Theory in Foreign Policy Analysis: Introducing Positioning Theory to International Relations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Voices of Law and Justice. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
of public inquiries about the failings of the British political regime.
Theatre director Milo Rau organised tribunals in Moscow — about artistic
freedom — and East Congo — about violent economic exploitation.
This contribution discusses the discourses of these performances, with John
L. Austin’s speech act theory as an analytical tool, ...
The Performance of (the Declaration of) Independence Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Interpreting the Rule(s) of Code: Performance, Performativity, and Production Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Varieties of Moral Orders and the Dual Structure of Society Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper argues that morality is what links structure to agency and that this perspective supports Giddens’ point of view that the agency–structure linkage entails not dualism but duality. These claims will be supported by bringing together four mediating concepts to address both how structures come to being and what the substance of structure is. First, John Searle’s concept of deontic power and Rom Harré’s concept of moral order will be ...
How Social Forms Come Alive: The Enactive Workings of Discursive Positioning Vrije Universiteit Brussel
By focusing on the structural-enactive aspect of discursive positioning, I explore the capacity of the positioning theory to contribute to a higher-level theoretical conciliation of the 'agency vs. structure' dichotomy in social sciences. Connecting the theory of Rom Harré and Luk Van Langenhove with Austin's pragmalinguistics, Searle's social ontology and Luhmann's theory of social systems, I argue that the discursive positioning is ...