J. L. Austin on Language [electronic resource] /
Garvey, B.editor.
Looking at the work of J.L. Austin, who subjected language to a close and intense analysis, this book deals with his examination of the various things we do with words, and with the philosophical insights he believed could be gained by closely examining the uses of words by non-philosophers.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; Remembering J.L. Austin; 1 Recollections of J.L. Austin; 2 Austin on Language and Action; 3 When Words Do Things: Perlocutions and Social Affordances; 4 Etiolations; 5 How to Do Things without Words; 6 Austin's Method; 7 Getting the Philosopher Out of the Armchair: J.L. Austin's Response to Logical Positivism in Comparison to That of Arne Naess; 8 Verbal Fallacies and Philosophical Intuitions: The Continuing Relevance of Ordinary Language Analysis
9 Sense and Sensibilia and the Significance of Linguistic Phenomenology10 Austin on the Philosophy of Perception; 11 Austin on Conceptual Polarity and Sensation Deception Metaphors; 12 The Importance of Intentions in Introspection; 13 Ordinary Language and the Nature of Emotions and Motives; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Looking at the work of J.L. Austin, who subjected language to a close and intense analysis, this book deals with his examination of the various things we do with words, and with the philosophical insights he believed could be gained by closely examining the uses of words by non-philosophers.
Linguistics
Philosophy (General).
Philosophy, modern.
Literature.
Philosophy of Language.
History of Philosophy.
Linguistics, general.
Modern Philosophy.
Literature, general.