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9 de mar. de 2022 · A classic work of philosophy of language that explores the nature and functions of speech acts, such as asserting, promising, ordering, and questioning. The book challenges the conventional views of semantics, reference, and normative ethics, and provides a clear and lively style of argumentation.
3 de jul. de 2007 · Speech Acts. First published Tue Jul 3, 2007; substantive revision Thu Sep 24, 2020. We are attuned in everyday conversation not primarily to the sentences we utter to one another, but to the speech acts that those utterances are used to perform: requests, warnings, invitations, promises, apologies, predictions, and the like.
Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - Speech Acts. ‘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.’
- John R. Searle
- 1969
17 de fev. de 2023 · Austin’s classification of speech acts was closely examined and greatly improved by his student John Searle. In his book Expression and Meaning (1979), instead of focusing on performative verbs, he distinguishes twelve dimensions of variation in which illocutionary acts differ from one another.
The speech act theory was introduced by Oxford philosopher J.L. Austin in How to Do Things With Words and further developed by American philosopher J.R. Searle. It considers the degree to which utterances are said to perform locutionary acts , illocutionary acts , and/or perlocutionary acts .
John Searle's first major work, Speech Acts, appeared in 1969. By then, the tradition of language analysis within which it was framed had matured. Indeed, it was already in the second stage of development. The first stage was strongly influenced by the many accomplishments of science.
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. By JOHN. R. SEARLE. Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. 203. ?2.25; paperback 75p. THIS book has immediately, and justly, been accorded the status of a major contribution to the philosophy of language. The brilliant.
