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John R. Searle (Author)

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052109626X 978-0521096263 January 1, 1970
Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.

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'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.' The Philosophical Quarterly

'This book has immediately, and justly, been accorded the status of a major contribution to the philosophy of language. The brilliant but programmatic insights of Austin's How to do things with words are systematically developed and integrated with the more recent work of philosophers such as Grice, Rawls and Searle himself to produce an apparently comprehensive and certainly illuminating general theory, summarized in what Searle terms the 'main hypothesis' of the book, 'speaking a language is engaging in a rule-governed form of behaviour.' Mind

'The main merit of Searle's book - and it is a very substantial merit indeed - is that by attempting to construct a systematic theory of speech acts it substantially advances out knowledge of the problems that have to be solved in this fascinating field. Even if Searle himself has not yet found a wholly satisfactory way through the jungle, he has certainly established a number of clearings which will greatly facilitate subsequent explorations.' Philosophical Review

'Written in an outstanding clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.' The Times Literary Supplement

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"Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled." TLS

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total illocutionary act, speech act fallacy, uniquely existential proposition, consummated reference, speech act analysts, chess case, assertion fallacy, corresponding general term, naturalistic fallacy fallacy, different illocutionary acts, linguistic characterizations, definite referring expressions, illocutionary force indicating device, illocutionary force indicator, identifying description, singular referring expressions, literal utterance, force indicating devices, utterance counts, valid deductive argument, propositional acts, speech act analysis, preparatory conditions, constitutive rules, illocutionary effect
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