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Book Title
How to Do Things with Words
Publication Date
2018-10-07
Pages
178
ISBN
9781684222650

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Martino FINE Books
ISBN-10
1684222656
ISBN-13
9781684222650
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038744830

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
178 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
How to Do Things with Words
Subject
Language, Linguistics / Semantics, Logic
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Author
J. L. Austin
Subject Area
Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
149.94
Synopsis
2018 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Reprint of the First Edition. John L. Austin was a British philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, perhaps best known for developing the theory of speech acts. Austin pointed out that we use language to do things as well as to assert things, and that the utterance of a statement like "I promise to do so-and-so" is best understood as doing something -- making a promise -- rather than making an assertion about anything. Hence the name of one of his best-known works How to Do Things with Words. Austin, in providing his theory of speech acts, makes a significant challenge to the philosophy of language, far beyond merely elucidating a class of morphological sentence forms that function to do what they name. Austin's work ultimately suggests that all speech and all utterance is the doing of something with words and signs, challenging a metaphysics of language that would posit denotative, propositional assertion as the essence of language and meaning.

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