How to Do Things with Words

The William James Lectures delivered in Harvard University in 1955

J. L. Austin (Autor)

J. O. Urmson, Marina Sbisà (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

1976 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-281205-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Performatives and constatives; conditions for happy performatives; infelicities - misfires; infelicities - abuses; possible criteria of performatives; explicit performatives; explicit performative verbs; locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts; distinctions between illocutionary and perlocutionary acts; "in saying" versus "by saying"; statements, performatives and illocutionary force; classes of illocutionary force.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.12.1976
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 196 mm
Gewicht	210 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	0-19-281205-X / 019281205X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-281205-6 / 9780192812056
Zustand	Neuware