http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/linguistic-philosophy Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:14:47 -0400 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:14:47 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/711/habermass-linguistic-theory-applied-to-david-mamets-films-communicative-action-in-action By Jenna N. Neumann - Jürgen Habermas - a prominent German philosopher and critical social theorist - offers a theory of language use that identifies and analyzes the rationality potential of communicative understanding between two parties. Habermas champions this theory of language use as a means to repair the breakdown of the surrounding lifeworld. This breakdown results from the use of strategic action, harboring deceptive perlocutionary aims. With strategic action, trust in communication breaks down and leads to disorder and disarray in their shared lifeworld. Habermas advocates communicative action as the... Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:30 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/711/habermass-linguistic-theory-applied-to-david-mamets-films-communicative-action-in-action