How to Do Things with Words J. L. Austin

2018 Reprint of 1962 Edition.&nbsp, Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.&nbsp, Reprint of the First Edition.&nbsp, John L. Austin was a British philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, perhaps best known for developing the theory of speech acts.&nbsp, Austin pointed out that we use language to do things as well as to assert things, and that the utterance of a statement like &quot,I promise to do so-and-so&quot, is best understood as doing something &mdash, making a promise &mdash, rather than making an assertion about anything. Hence the name of one of his best-known works How to Do Things with Words. Austin, in providing his theory of speech acts, makes a significant challenge to the philosophy of language, far beyond merely elucidating a class of morphological sentence forms that function to do what they name. Austin&#39,s work ultimately suggests that all speech and all utterance is the doing of something with words and signs, challenging a metaphysics of language that would posit denotative, propositional assertion as the essence of language and meaning.

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• ISBN: 9781684222650
• Autor: JLAustin, J. L. Austin
• Editorial: Martino Fine Books
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• Encuadernación: Tapa Blanda
• Dimensiones: 152.00 x 229.00 mm