How To Do Things With Words

Abstract

Abstract 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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John Langshaw Austin (1975). How To Do Things With Words. Routledge eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198245537.001.0001

@article{langshaw1975how,
  title  = {How To Do Things With Words},
  author = {Austin, John Langshaw},
  year   = {1975},
  journal = {Routledge eBooks},
  doi    = {10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198245537.001.0001}
}

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