TY - BOOK ID - 53541750 TI - How to do things with words: the William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955 AU - Austin, J.L. AU - Urmson, J.O. PY - 1975 SN - 9780191680861 0191680869 019824553X PB - Oxford Clarendon Press DB - UniCat KW - Language and languages KW - Speech acts (Linguistics) KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Philosophy KW - #GROL:SEMI-130.2:8 KW - Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) KW - Speech act theory (Linguistics) KW - Speech events (Linguistics) KW - Linguistics KW - Speech UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:53541750 AB - This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, Austin here finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory of 'illocutionary forces' of utterances which has important bearings on a wide variety of philosophical problems. ER -