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User Review - elenchus - LibraryThingIt's worth noting the title is a pun. Austin examines when a speech act is performative and not merely constative: when the 'saying' evokes or conjures rather than (merely) states or describes, and is ... Read full review
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User Review - jeneyhart - LibraryThing1) The distinctions Austin makes are useful. 2) The distinctions don't hold up. 3) The collapse of the distinctions is useful. Read full review
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| Title | How to Do Things with Words The William James lectures delivered at Harvard University ; 1955 William James lectures |
| Author | John Langshaw Austin |
| Editor | J. O. Urmson |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 10, 2009 |
| Length | 166 pages |
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