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Publication details [#41920]
Sbisà, Marina. 2000. John L. Austin. In Östman, Jan-Ola, Jef Verschueren, Jan Blommaert and Chris Bulcaen, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics. 1998 Installment. John Benjamins.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
This essay deals with J. L. Austin 1911–1960). Together with Grice and Searle, he is one of the philosophers who mostly affected the birth and development of pragmatics. The most influential aspect of his thought is his speech act theory, usually considered in isolation from the rest of his philosophy. But a correct understanding of his speech act theory requires placing it correctly within the context of his other claims, especially those regarding the philosophy of language and the philosophy of action.