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How to Do Things with Words by J L Austin: Used
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- How to Do Things with Words
- Publication Date
- 2018-10-07
- Pages
- 178
- ISBN
- 9781684222650
About this product
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
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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