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1 lis 2015 · AUSTIN J. L How To Do Things With Words. Topics. Libertar.io, Philosophy, Language, William James Lectures. Collection. opensource. Language. English. Item Size. 160.7M.
Examining (and, where possible, correcting) mutual misapprehension is part of this task. J. L. Austin’s remarks on poetry offer one such point of entry: they are often cited by poets and critics as an example of philosophy’s blindness to poetry (I).
This paper examines J.L. Austin's theory regarding speech acts, or how we do things with words. It starts by reviewing the birth and foundation of speech act theory as it appeared in the 1955 William James Lectures at Harvard before going into.
In his late 'A Plea for Excuses', John L. Austin suggests labelling his philosophy 'linguistic phenomenology'. This article examines which idea of phenomenology Austin had in mind when he coined this term and what light this sheds on his method.
Looking at the work of J.L. Austin, who subjected language to a close and intense analysis, this book deals with his examination of the various things we do with words, and with the philosophical insights he believed could be gained by closely examining the uses of words by non-philosophers.
How to Do Things with Words. John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which...
1 gru 2011 · This is the first collection of essays on J. L. Austin’s philosophy published by a major Anglophone press in nearly forty years. Rejecting the standard picture of him as an effectively obsolete “doyen of ordinary language philosophy”, the contributors show how Austin’s work can be brought to bear on issues that are on the top of today ...
