How to do things with words

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  Speech acts and responsibility

  Philosophy has a great deal to do with words. Austin's utterances classification (verdictives, exercitives, commissive...) is useful to demonstrate how and when speech acts succeed or fail. Behabitives, especially compliments which do not secure something as good, is still a matter of philosophical ... (continue)

  Philosophy has a great deal to do with words. Austin's utterances classification (verdictives, exercitives, commissive...) is useful to demonstrate how and when speech acts succeed or fail. Behabitives, especially compliments which do not secure something as good, is still a matter of philosophical inquiry. But the way in which all these questions are explained - lectures -is fragmentary, a little boring and difficult to read and digest.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 180 Pages
• Edition: 2Rev Ed
• ISBN-10: 019824553X
• ISBN-13: 9780198245537
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pub date: Sep 18, 1975
• Also available as: Paperback

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