Concept

How to Do Things with Words

Overview

essay by J. L. Austin

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Philosophers who discussed How to Do Things with Words

• J. O. Urmson
• J. L. Austin

Related ideas

• John Searle
• David Kaplan (philosopher)
• J. O. Urmson
• Harvard University
• J. L. Austin
• Pragmatics
• Speech act
• Literary theory
• Jacques Derrida
• Illocutionary act
• Sociolinguistics
• Performative utterance

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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