How to Do Things with Words

AuthorJ. L. Austin
GenrePhilosophy, Linguistics
Original LanguageEnglish
First published1955
First published1962
LinksEnglish
NotesBased on a lecture at Harvard University from 1955. How to Do Things with Words is perhaps Austin's most influential work. In contrast to the positivist view, he argues, sentences with truth-values form only a small part of the range of utterances.
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