The DOI matches its Crossref record.
How To Do Things With Words
Open accessAbstract
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.
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“Bourdieu borrowed from Austin (1975: 16) in emphasizing ' misfires ' or blips, instances in which attempted speech acts (or by extension, attempted practices of any sort) fail because of some maladaption of practice to the situation (Austin's 'infelicities').”
From Bourdieu, Historicity, and Historical Sociology (2011) · cites this paper as Austin, 1975
In the citing paper
“Not knowing these intended meanings or illocutions, in Austin's (1975) words, interlocutors' misunderstanding is inevitable.”
From Teachers’ Classroom Interactional Competence: Scale Development and Validation (2023) · cites this paper as Austin's (1975)
Citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Items 2,401–2,500 of 21,466
Moberly, R. W. L. (2006) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511720192 · Cited by 43
Confucian Ethics Exhibited in the Discourse of Chinese Business and Marketing Communication
Zhu, Y. (2009) · Journal of Business Ethics · doi:10.1007/s10551-009-0299-2 · Cited by 46
The mediated conversational floor: an interactive approach to audience reception analysis
Wood, H. (2007) · Media Culture & Society · doi:10.1177/0163443706072000 · Cited by 43
Lehrer, A. (2012) · Philosophical Studies · doi:10.1007/s11098-012-9934-3 · Cited by 43
Broc, L., Bernicot, J., Olive, T., et al. (2013) · Research in Developmental Disabilities · doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2013.06.025 · Cited by 43
Storming parents, schools and communicative inaction
Ranson, S., Martin, J. M., & Vincent, C. H. (2004) · British Journal of Sociology of Education · doi:10.1080/0142569042000216936 · Cited by 43
Goddard, C. (2001) · Journal of Pragmatics · doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(00)00028-x · Cited by 43
Reflexivity and Narratives in Action Research: A Discursive Approach
Colombo, M. (2008) · Forum qualitative Sozialforschung · doi:10.17169/fqs-4.2.718 · Cited by 44
Dialogue act tagging for instant messaging chat sessions
Ivanovic, E. (2005) · doi:10.3115/1628960.1628976 · Cited by 43
On Whether to Apologize to Indigenous Australians: The Denial of White Guilt
Augoustinos, M., & LeCouteur, A. (2004) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9781139106931.015 · Cited by 43
Classifying Intersex in DSM-5: Critical Reflections on Gender Dysphoria
Kraus, C. (2015) · Archives of Sexual Behavior · doi:10.1007/s10508-015-0550-0 · Cited by 43
Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230
Burgwinkle, W. (2004) · Cited by 43
A framework for group decision support systems: Combining AI tools and OR techniques
Karacapilidis, N. I., & Pappis, C. P. (1997) · European Journal of Operational Research · doi:10.1016/s0377-2217(97)00126-4 · Cited by 43
Form and Function of Communicative Behaviour Among Persons with Severe Developmental Disabilities
McLean, J. E., & Snyder-McLean, L. (1987) · Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability · doi:10.3109/13668258709023350 · Cited by 43
Augmenting conversations using dual-purpose speech
Lyons, K., Skeels, C., Starner, T. E., Snoeck, C. M., Wong, B. A., & Ashbrook, D. (2004) · ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) · doi:10.1145/1029632.1029674 · Cited by 43
The communicative competence of mildly retarded adults
Abbeduto, L., & Rosenberg, S. D. (1980) · Applied Psycholinguistics · doi:10.1017/s0142716400009826 · Cited by 43
An ethnographic, action-based approach to human experience in virtual environments
Spagnolli, A., Varotto, D., & Mantovani, G. (2003) · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies · doi:10.1016/s1071-5819(03)00120-4 · Cited by 43
Penn, C. (1999) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1006/brln.1999.2127 · Cited by 43
Analyzing Polarization in Social Media: Method and Application to Tweets on 21 Mass ShootingsPreprint
Demszky, D., Garg, N., Voigt, R., Zou, J., Gentzkow, M. A., Shapiro, J. M., & Jurafsky, D. (2019) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1904.01596 · Cited by 43
Approaching the Bench: Teaching Magistrates and Judges how to Work Effectively with Interpreters
Hale, S. B. (2016) · MonTi Monografías de Traducción e Interpretación · doi:10.6035/monti.2015.7.6 · Cited by 42
The Sociolinguistics of Thanking in Akan
Agyekum, K. (2010) · Nordic journal of African studies · doi:10.53228/njas.v19i2.204 · Cited by 42
The bargaining genre: A study of retail encounters in traditional Chinese local markets
ORR, W. W. F. (2007) · Language in Society · doi:10.1017/s0047404507070042 · Cited by 42
Speech and Situation: A General Model for the Process of Speech Production
Hoppe-Graff, S., Herrmann, T., Winterhoff-Spurk, P., et al. (1985) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-5074-6_5 · Cited by 42
Linguistic Modality as Expressions of Social Power
Winter, S., & Gärdenfors, P. (1995) · Nordic Journal of Linguistics · doi:10.1017/s0332586500000147 · Cited by 42
Aboutness and negative truths: a modest strategy for truthmaker theorists
Schipper, A. (2017) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-017-1396-x · Cited by 42
The interface between pragmatics and conversation analysis
Drew, P. (2018) · Pragmatics & beyond. New series · doi:10.1075/pbns.294.04dre · Cited by 42
Interaction, Language Use, and Second Language Teaching
Huth, T. (2020) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781003017356 · Cited by 42
The Hereby-Commit Account of Inference
Blake‐Turner, C. (2020) · Australasian Journal of Philosophy · doi:10.1080/00048402.2020.1843062 · Cited by 42
“This is similar to how, when and only when uttering ‘I promise to deliver the message’ is promising, the uttering functions to change normative reality by committing the agent to delivering the message [Austin 1962].”
BackgroundKant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation: The Nature of Inner Experience
Kraus, K. T. (2020) · Cited by 42
Virtual Worlds: A Performative Perspective on Globally Distributed, Immersive Work
Schultze, U., & Orlikowski, W. J. (2010) · Cited by 42
Exclamatives: A Thematic Guide with Many Questions and Few Answers
Villalba, X. (2008) · Catalan Journal of Linguistics · doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.131 · Cited by 42
Workers' Moral Mum Effect: On Facework and Unethical Behavior in the Workplace
Bisel, R. S., Kelley, K. M., Ploeger, N. A., & Messersmith, J. G. (2011) · Communication Studies · doi:10.1080/10510974.2010.551314 · Cited by 47
Some Reflections on the (Analytic) Philosophical Approach to Delusion
Sass, L. A. (2004) · Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology · doi:10.1353/ppp.2004.0047 · Cited by 42
“Where obscurity is a virtue”: The mystique of unintelligibility in Santería ritual
Wirtz, K. (2005) · Language & Communication · doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2005.03.008 · Cited by 42
Velthuis, O. (2015) · Economy and Society · doi:10.1080/03085147.2015.1013355 · Cited by 42
Neu, J. (2002) · Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology · doi:10.1037/h0091219 · Cited by 42
Helping, doing, and the grammar of complicity
Yeager, D. B. (1996) · Criminal Justice Ethics · doi:10.1080/0731129x.1996.9992004 · Cited by 42
Medicines and the Embodiment of Substances Among Pogoro Catholics, Southern Tanzania
Green, M. (1996) · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · doi:10.2307/3034899 · Cited by 42
The Third Policeman: ‘The true and fair view’, language and the habitus of accounting
Hamilton, G., & hÓgartaigh, C. Ó. (2009) · Critical Perspectives on Accounting · doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2009.02.003 · Cited by 42
Zanghellini, A. (2012) · Social & Legal Studies · doi:10.1177/0964663911435282 · Cited by 44
Detection of Social Engineering Attacks Through Natural Language Processing of Conversations
Sawa, Y., Bhakta, R., Harris, I. G., et al. (2016) · IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) · doi:10.1109/icsc.2016.95 · Cited by 42
“Each sentence contains one or more clauses and each clause can express a number of different speech acts [11], [12].”
BackgroundAIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge
Preda, A. (2004) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511499418 · Cited by 42
Young children mostly keep, and expect others to keep, their promises
Kanngießer, P., Köymen, B., & Tomasello, M. (2017) · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2017.02.004 · Cited by 43
Domaneschi, F., Passarelli, M., & Chiorri, C. (2017) · Cognitive Processing · doi:10.1007/s10339-017-0809-6 · Cited by 42
Speech Acts in Political Speeches
Safwat, S. (2015) · Journal of Modern Education Review · doi:10.15341/jmer(2155-7993)/07.05.2015/008 · Cited by 42
Sociolinguistics and language creativity
Swann, J., & Deumert, A. (2017) · Language Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2017.06.002 · Cited by 42
Neural bases of social communicative intentions in speech
Hellbernd, N., & Sammler, D. (2018) · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · doi:10.1093/scan/nsy034 · Cited by 42
Berghout, M. A., Oldenhof, L., Fabbricotti, I. N., et al. (2018) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.07.013 · Cited by 42
Dialogue Act Classification with Context-Aware Self-Attention
Raheja, V., & Tetreault, J. (2019) · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · doi:10.18653/v1/n19-1373 · Cited by 42
Ogiermann, E., & Bella, S. (2021) · Journal of Pragmatics · doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2021.07.020 · Cited by 53
Power: Relational, Discursive, and Performative Dimensions
Reed, I. A. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-18357-7_8 · Cited by 42
Design devices: digital drawing and the pursuit of difference
Coyne, R., Park, H., & Wiszniewski, D. (2002) · Design Studies · doi:10.1016/s0142-694x(01)00038-2 · Cited by 42
Afterglow: Conceptions of record and evidence in archival discourse
Brothman, B. (2002) · Archives and Museum Informatics · doi:10.1007/bf02435627 · Cited by 42
Expert and Experiential Knowledge in Planning
Khakee, A., Barbanente, A., & Borri, D. (2000) · Journal of the Operational Research Society · doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600841 · Cited by 46
Corporate self, corporate reputation and corporate annual reports: re-enrolling Goffman
White, R., & Hanson, D. J. (2002) · Scandinavian Journal of Management · doi:10.1016/s0956-5221(01)00013-6 · Cited by 42
Productive learning practice – a theoretical discussion based on two cases
Lillejord, S., & Dysthe, O. (2008) · Journal of Education and Work · doi:10.1080/13639080801957154 · Cited by 45
The authenticity of intercultural communication
Fox, C. (1997) · International Journal of Intercultural Relations · doi:10.1016/s0147-1767(96)00012-0 · Cited by 42
The Use of Communication to Motivate College Sales Teams
Zorn, T. E., & Ruccio, S. E. (1998) · Journal of Business Communication · doi:10.1177/002194369803500403 · Cited by 42
Maher, M. L., Skow, B., & Cicognani, A. (1999) · Design Studies · doi:10.1016/s0142-694x(98)00043-x · Cited by 44
Hypotheses on the dissociation between “referential” and “modalizing” verbal behavior in aphasia
Nespoulous, J., Code, C., Virbel, J., et al. (1998) · Applied Psycholinguistics · doi:10.1017/s0142716400010080 · Cited by 42
Perlocutions: The Achilles' heel of speech act theory
Marcu, D. (2000) · Journal of Pragmatics · doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(99)00121-6 · Cited by 42
The Nonperformativity of Antiracism
Ahmed, S. (2020) · Meridians · doi:10.1215/15366936-8565957 · Cited by 42
McShane, J. H., Whittaker, S., & Dockrell, J. (1986) · Springer series in cognitive development · doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-4844-6_11 · Cited by 112
An analysis of conference interactions onTeleNex—A computer network for ESL teachers
Tsui, A. Β. M., & Ki, W. W. (1996) · Educational Technology Research and Development · doi:10.1007/bf02299819 · Cited by 42
Genre, Motive, and Metaphor: Conditions for Creativity in Ritual Language
Csordas, T. J. (1987) · Cultural Anthropology · doi:10.1525/can.1987.2.4.02a00020 · Cited by 42
Nicoloff, F. (1989) · Journal of Pragmatics · doi:10.1016/0378-2166(89)90038-6 · Cited by 42
Communicative Competence and the Architecture of the Mind/Brain
Tirassa, M. (1999) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1006/brln.1999.2121 · Cited by 43
Ching, M. K. L. (1987) · American Speech · doi:10.2307/455409 · Cited by 42
Task scripts, use cases and scenarios in object oriented analysis.
Graham, I. M. (1996) · Cited by 42
What is rhetorical knowledge? A response to Farrell‐ and more
Carleton, W. M. (1978) · Quarterly Journal of Speech · doi:10.1080/00335637809383436 · Cited by 42
Linguistics, Human Communication and Psychiatry
Thomas, P., & Fraser, W. (1994) · The British Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1192/bjp.165.5.585 · Cited by 42
The Grammar of Tolerance: On Vagueness, Context-Sensitivity, and the Origin of Scale Structure
Burnett, H. (2012) · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · Cited by 42
Toleration and the Design of Norms
Floridi, L. (2014) · Science and Engineering Ethics · doi:10.1007/s11948-014-9589-x · Cited by 41
A local welcome? Narrations of citizenship and nation in UK citizenship ceremonies
Byrne, B. (2012) · Citizenship Studies · doi:10.1080/13621025.2012.683265 · Cited by 41
“The ceremony and the endowing of citizenship fail to be ‘a happy performative’ (Austin 1962) as the speech goes on to suggest: Today, as you finally are able to acquire that all-important British passport, it is the end of the process.”
BackgroundInfluentialMoving closer to the fabric of organizing visions: The case of a trade show
de Vaujany, F., Carton, S., Dominguez, C., & Vaast, E. (2012) · The Journal of Strategic Information Systems · doi:10.1016/j.jsis.2012.10.006 · Cited by 43
The reproduction of culture through argumentative discourse
Shi‐xu, & Kienpointner, M. (2015) · Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) · doi:10.1075/prag.11.3.03shi · Cited by 40
The pragmatics of discourse planning
de Beaugrande, R.-A. (1980) · Journal of Pragmatics · doi:10.1016/0378-2166(80)90015-6 · Cited by 41
Creative Writing after Traumatic Loss: Towards a Generative Writing Approach
Barak, A., & Leichtentritt, R. D. (2016) · The British Journal of Social Work · doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcw030 · Cited by 41
Gilmore, A. (2015) · Language Teaching · doi:10.1017/s0261444815000269 · Cited by 41
Syntactic properties of spontaneous speech in the Language into Act Theory
Cresti, E. (2014) · Studies in corpus linguistics · doi:10.1075/scl.61.13cre · Cited by 41
McGowan, M. K. (2018) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781315181189-12 · Cited by 41
How does dialogical talk promote student learning during small group work? An exploratory study
Díez-Palomar, J., Chan, M. C. E., Clarke, D. J., & Cuxart, M. P. (2021) · Learning Culture and Social Interaction · doi:10.1016/j.lcsi.2021.100540 · Cited by 51
Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Race
Anderson, L. (2017) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781315212043-13 · Cited by 41
The Problem of the Body in Modern State Punishment
Garland, D. (2011) · Social research · doi:10.1353/sor.2011.0033 · Cited by 29
On Racist Hate Speech and the Scope of a Free Speech Principle
Maitra, I., & McGowan, M. K. (2010) · Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence · doi:10.1017/s0841820900004963 · Cited by 41
Practising gender: The role of banter in young men’s improvisations of masculine consumer identities
Hein, W., & O’Donohoe, S. (2013) · Journal of Marketing Management · doi:10.1080/0267257x.2013.852608 · Cited by 44
Riccioni, I., Bongelli, R., & Zuczkowski, A. (2014) · Language & Communication · doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2014.08.001 · Cited by 41
Unsupervised classification of dialogue acts using a dirichlet process mixture model
Crook, N., Granell, R., & Pulman, S. (2009) · Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue · doi:10.3115/1708376.1708427 · Cited by 41
Wright, A. (2014) · Organization · doi:10.1177/1350508414533165 · Cited by 41
Doing Theodicy: An Empirical Study of a Women's Prayer Group
Day, A. (2005) · Journal of Contemporary Religion · doi:10.1080/13537900500249889 · Cited by 41
Shared assumptions: Semantic minimalism and Relevance Theory
Wedgwood, D. (2007) · Journal of Linguistics · doi:10.1017/s0022226707004793 · Cited by 41
Locutions for Argumentation in Agent Interaction Protocols
McBurney, P., & Parsons, S. (2005) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-540-32258-0_14 · Cited by 41
Towards a Diagnostic Toolkit for the Language of Agency
Konopasky, A., & Sheridan, K. M. (2016) · Mind Culture and Activity · doi:10.1080/10749039.2015.1128952 · Cited by 41
XI—Performatives and Parentheticals
Blakemore, D. (1991) · Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback) · doi:10.1093/aristotelian/91.1.197 · Cited by 41
Memory Acts: A Theory for the Study of Collective Memory in Everyday Life
Laurent, C. D. S. (2017) · Journal of Constructivist Psychology · doi:10.1080/10720537.2016.1271375 · Cited by 45
Counting to zero: accounting for a green building
Georg, S., & Justesen, L. (2017) · Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal · doi:10.1108/aaaj-04-2013-1320 · Cited by 44
Emotions and Knowledge in Expert Work: A Comparison of Two Psychotherapies
Crăciun, M. (2017) · American Journal of Sociology · doi:10.1086/695682 · Cited by 56
Dozono, T. (2020) · The Review of Education Pedagogy & Cultural Studies · doi:10.1080/10714413.2020.1721261 · Cited by 41
Topic modelling online depression forums: beyond narratives of self-objectification and self-blaming
Sík, D., Németh, R., & Katona, E. (2021) · Journal of Mental Health · doi:10.1080/09638237.2021.1979493 · Cited by 42
Assumption-based argumentation dialogues
Fan, X., & Toni, F. (2011) · doi:10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/ijcai11-044 · Cited by 41
Metadata
- Authors
- Austin, J. L.
- Corresponding author
- Austin, J.L.
- Venue
- Routledge eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 1975-09-18
- Pages
- 177-182
- OpenAlex
- W1576632330
- Cited by
- 21,496
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 432 · 2025: 587 · 2024: 705 · 2023: 823 · 2022: 768 · 2021: 996 · 2020: 1094 · 2019: 1291 · 2018: 1056 · 2017: 881 · 2016: 898 · 2015: 873 · 2014: 960 · 2013: 858 · 2012: 797
- FWCI
- 374.62
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- 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
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
