How to Do Things with Words

How to Do Things with Words
ISBN-10
019824553X
ISBN-13
9780198245537
Category
Language and languages
Pages
168
Language
English
Published
1975
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
John Langshaw Austin

Description

This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, Austin here finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory of 'illocutionary forces' of utterances which has important bearings on a wide variety of philosophicalproblems.

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