附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-340).
pt. 1. Wittgenstein and the nature of linguistic signs -- Grammar, speech act theory, and Gricean pragmatics: the foundations of a dramatistic view of language -- The concept of action, and the consequences for hermeneutic theory -- A test case of action description: interpreting Williams' "This is just to say" -- pt. 2. A procedural definition of literature and the concept of performance -- Literary procedures and the question of indeterminacy -- Toward an intensional text grammar: the constituents of literary performance -- Literary reference and literary experience as a means of knowledge -- Self-reflection and reading as a source of social values.