How to do things with words
By: J. L. Austin ; edited by J. O. Urmson and Marina Sbisà.
Edition: 2d ed.
Series: The William James lectures ;
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Oxford [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Language and languages -- Philosophy; Speech acts (Linguistics)
Description: 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.
Notes: Delivered at Harvard University.
Includes index.