How to Do Things with Words
Download or Read eBook How to Do Things with Words PDF written by John Langshaw Austin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : John Langshaw Austin |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780198245537 |
| ISBN-13 | : 019824553X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis How to Do Things with Words by : John Langshaw Austin
Book excerpt: 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.
