How to Do Things with Words

How to Do Things with Words

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How to Do Things with Words by J L Austin

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 philosophical problems.
Austin, J. L.: - J. L. Austin was a British philosopher of language.
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ISBN 13 9780192812056
ISBN 10 019281205X
Title How to Do Things with Words
Author J L Austin
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1976-12-02
Number of pages 192
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