
Speech Acts
An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 2 January 1969
- ISBN 9780521096263
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages214 pages
- Size 216x141x16 mm
- Weight 290 g
- Language English 0
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This outstandingly clear and lively 1969 book provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.
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Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, this 1969 book provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.
'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How to do things with words and one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades.' The Philosophical Quarterly
Table of Contents:
Part I. A Theory of Speech Acts: 1. Methods and scope; 2. Expressions, meaning and speech acts; 3. The structure of illocutionary acts; 4. Reference as a speech act; 5. Predication; Part II. Some Applications of the Theory: 6. Three fallacies in contemporary philosophy; 7. Problems of reference; 8. Deriving 'ought' from 'is'; Index.
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