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How to Do Things with Words by J. L. Austin (2018, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMartino FINE Books

ISBN-101684222656

ISBN-139781684222650

eBay Product ID (ePID)11038744830

Product Key Features

Number of Pages178 Pages

Publication NameHow to Do Things with Words

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

SubjectLanguage, Linguistics / Semantics, Logic

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorJ. L. Austin

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition19

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal149.94

Synopsis2018 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.