How to Do Things With Words - William James Lectures

J. L. Austin, J. O. Urmson, Marina Sbisà

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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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Book information

ISBN:	9780198245537
Publisher:	OUP OXFORD
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	18 Sep 1975
Edition:	2nd Edition
DEWEY:	149.94
DEWEY edition:	18
Language:	English
Number of pages:	169
Weight:	274g
Height:	190mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	17mm