How to Do Things with Words : The William James Lectures delivered in Harvard University in 1955

Name: How to Do Things with Words
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780192812056
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ISBN: 9780192812056

2 Revised edition

by J. L. Austin

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 019281205X

ISBN-13 9780192812056

Edition 2 Revised edition

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 2nd, 1976

Print length 192 Pages

Weight 226 grams

Dimensions 19.80 x 12.90 x 1.20 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy of language

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This volume contains the late J.L. Austin's examination of his distinction of performative utterances from statements, and his subsequent theory of "illocutionary forces" of utterances. It is a revised version of his famous William James Lectures, delivered at Harvard University.

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.

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