How to Do Things With Words

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Abstract This work sets out the author's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, he finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory of ‘illocutionary forces’ of utterances, which has important bearings on a wide variety of philosophical problems.

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Year: 2025
Type: book
Pages: 177-182
Citations: 13994
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                                    John Austin
                                
                            (2025). 
                            How to Do Things With Words. 
                            
                            , 177-182.
                            https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003282969-27

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003282969-27