How to Do Things with Words

How to Do Things with Words
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 181
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ISBN-10 : 9780198245537
ISBN-13 : 019824553X
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Book Synopsis How to Do Things with Words by : John Langshaw Austin

Download or read book How to Do Things with Words 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. 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.


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