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This volume contains the late J.L. Austin's examination of his distinction of performative utterances from statements, and his subsequent theory of "illocutionary forces" of utterances. It is a revised version of his famous William James Lectures, delivered at Harvard University.

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Performatives and constatives; conditions for happy performatives; infelicities - misfires; infelicities - abuses; possible criteria of performatives; explicit performatives; explicit performative verbs; locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts; distinctions between illocutionary and perlocutionary acts; "in saying" versus "by saying"; statements, performatives and illocutionary force; classes of illocutionary force.

How to Do Things with Words

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    A Paperback by J. L. Austin, J. O. Urmson, Marina Sbisà

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      Publisher: OUP Oxford
      Publication Date: 12/2/1976 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780192812056, 978-0192812056
      ISBN10: 019281205X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume contains the late J.L. Austin's examination of his distinction of performative utterances from statements, and his subsequent theory of "illocutionary forces" of utterances. It is a revised version of his famous William James Lectures, delivered at Harvard University.

      Table of Contents
      Performatives and constatives; conditions for happy performatives; infelicities - misfires; infelicities - abuses; possible criteria of performatives; explicit performatives; explicit performative verbs; locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts; distinctions between illocutionary and perlocutionary acts; "in saying" versus "by saying"; statements, performatives and illocutionary force; classes of illocutionary force.

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