{"product_id":"how-to-do-things-with-words-paperback","title":"How to Do Things with Words - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. L. Austin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJ. O. Urmson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn L. Austin was a British philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, perhaps best known for developing the theory of speech acts. Austin pointed out that we use language to \u003cem\u003edo\u003c\/em\u003e things as well as to \u003cem\u003eassert\u003c\/em\u003e things, and that the utterance of a statement like \"I promise to do so-and-so\" is best understood as \u003cem\u003edoing\u003c\/em\u003e something - \u003cem\u003emaking a promise\u003c\/em\u003e - rather than making an assertion about anything. Hence the name of one of his best-known works \u003cem\u003eHow to Do Things with Words\u003c\/em\u003e. Austin, in providing his theory of speech acts, makes a significant challenge to the philosophy of language, far beyond merely elucidating a class of morphological sentence forms that function to do what they name. Austin's work ultimately suggests that all speech and all utterance is the doing of something with words and signs, challenging a metaphysics of language that would posit denotative, propositional assertion as the essence of language and meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47326925619449,"sku":"9781773239668","price":14.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/b2hmWGpRT0ZQMUdNdUgvdHVCRnhtdz09.webp?v=1769573259","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/how-to-do-things-with-words-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}