Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

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ISBN: 9780521096263 | 052109626X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/1/1970

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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.'--Philosophical Quarterly

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Part I. A Theory of Speech Acts: 1. Methods and scope
2. Expressions, meaning and speech acts
3. The structure of illocutionary acts
4. Reference as a speech act
5. Predication
Part II. Some Applications of the Theory: 6. Three fallacies in contemporary philosophy
7. Problems of reference
8. Deriving 'ought' from 'is'
Index.

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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

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