Речта, силите, демиургичното
Speech, Forces, Demiurgic Effect

Summary/Abstract: Dimitar Vatsov’s new book, The Forces of Speech. A Radical Pragmatics (Sofia: Iztok-Zapad, 2021; in Bulgarian), could well be described as a conceptual encyclopedia of contemporary philosophy of language. It is encyclopedic as the amount of literature, traditions, and branches within larger trends that it covers, analyses, and critically evaluates, is enormous. Never before has there been such an effort, or a work of such scope, in Bulgaria; this is certainly the first and only one of its kind to date. However, it is also conceptual in the strict sense of the word. For the author has travelled the long path through the most authoritative writers and texts in the field from his own original perspective. This holds for his concept of language and linguisticality as well. Vatsov calls it radical pragmatics. His radical pragmatics represents an attempt to apply a new methodology to the entire variety of traditions in modern philosophy of language, as well as to throw bridges between the analytic, Anglo-American trends and the continental styles of doing philosophy.

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