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How To Do Things With Words

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Austin, J.L.·1975·Routledge eBooks
DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198245537.001.0001
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This work sets out the author'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 examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, he 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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Authors
Austin, J. L.
Corresponding author
Austin, J.L.
Venue
Routledge eBooks
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
Published
1975-09-18
Pages
177-182
DOI
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198245537.001.0001
OpenAlex
W1576632330
Cited by
21,496
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FWCI
374.62
Type
book chapter
Language
en
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other-oa
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  • Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
  • DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
Keywords
performatives, illocutionary force, statements, speech acts, pragmatics, philosophy of language

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