How to Do Things with Words: The William James Lectures delivered in Harvard University in 1955 2nd Revised edition

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ISBN:

9780192812056

Publication Date:

2 Dec 1976

Edition/language:

2nd Revised edition / English

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Pages:

192 pages

Format:

Paperback

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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.

Performatives and constatives; conditions for happy performatives; infelicities - misfires; infelicities - abuses; possible criteria of performatives; explicit performatives; explicit performative verbs; locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts; distinctions between illocutionary and perlocutionary acts; "in saying" versus "by saying"; statements, performatives and illocutionary force; classes of illocutionary force.

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How to Do Things with Words: The William James Lectures delivered in Harvard University in 1955 2nd Revised edition

Paperback by Austin, J. L. (late White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, late White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford); Urmson, J. O.; Sbisà, Marina

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