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