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How to Do Things With Words
Author: John Langshaw Austin
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This work sets out Austins 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.ReviewImmensely worth reading...What is made available here is a choice work by one of the most acute and original minds that England has produced in our time...The myth that Oxford philosophers in general, and Austin in particular, do nothing but examine the details of ordinary linguistic usage should be exploded once and for all by this new book. (Times Literary Supplement )Austin had an extraordinarily keen ear for the subtleties of English and a remarkable sensitivity to the aptness of one expression as opposed to another in a given linguistic situation. To read him is not only a pleasure it is also to learn much about English and to gain a new respect for its proper use. (The Massachusetts Review ) About the AuthorJ. L. Austin is at University of Oxford.
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