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Journal articles on the topic "How to do things with words (Austin, J. L.)"

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Satlow, Michael L. "“Texts of Terror”: Rabbinic Texts, Speech Acts, and the Control of Mores." AJS Review 21, no. 2 (1996): 273–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0364009400008539.

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In 1962, J. L. Austin published a set of lectures entitled How to Do Things with Words. In this founding document of speech act theory, Austin argues that language not only can say things, but it can also do things (what he calls the illocutionary force of language). Austins signal example of the illocutionary force of language is the wedding ceremony, in which words properly recited actually create a marriage. Later students of speech act theory have expanded the application of this insight: all language, written or spoken, has an illocutionary force that depends on the context of the speech
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de Gaynesford, M. "How Not To Do Things With Words: J. L. Austin on Poetry." British Journal of Aesthetics 51, no. 1 (2011): 31–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayq045.

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Taylor, McComas. "How to Do Things with Sanskrit: Speech Act Theory and the Oral Performance of Sacred Texts." Numen 62, no. 5-6 (2015): 519–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341390.

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It is now half a century since J. L. Austin published his seminal workHow to Do Things with Words, in which he first articulated his theory of speech acts. Since thenhis core idea that verbal utterances convey more than what is simply implied by the words alone has become axiomatic. In this paperI will describe the use of Sanskrit verses in an oral tradition known in Hindi as aBhāgavata-kathā(“Divine narrative” or “Stories about God”)as practiced by teachers in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (iskcon)popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement. Verses drawn from the import
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Oishi, Etsuko. "Illocutionary-act-type sensitivity and discursive sequence: An examination of quotation." Intercultural Pragmatics 19, no. 3 (2022): 381–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2022-3005.

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Abstract The present paper develops the concept of discourse within Austin’s original speech act theory as laid out in Austin, J. L., [1962]1975 How to do things with words. Oxford: Oxford University Press, and provides a model to explain illocutionary acts in discourse. In uttering something, a speaker performs an illocutionary act and imports its conventional effect into the discourse, in which the next speaker (the hearer in the preceding turn) performs an illocutionary act and brings about its effect, and the sequenced effects develop the discourse. Both the content of an utterance importe
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Dey, Manna. "primary characteristics of English pragmatics in Applied Linguistics." Inverge Journal of Social Sciences 2, no. 2 (2023): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.63544/ijss.v2i2.25.

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Pragmatics is a linguistic field that explores the complex relationship between language, context, and meaning. It involves analyzing how speakers and writers use language to convey not only literal information, but also social, cultural, and emotional cues that shape communication. Pragmatics examines how language users interpret and infer meaning based on contextual factors such as tone, gesture, and social norms, and how they use language to achieve various goals and outcomes. By uncovering the hidden meanings and intentions behind language use, pragmatics provides valuable insights into hu
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Sbisà, Marina. "How to read Austin." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 17, no. 3 (2007): 461–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.17.3.06sbi.

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The goal of this paper is a reassessment of the contributions provided by John L. Austin’s book “How to Do Things with Words” to pragmatics. It discusses some assumptions belonging to the received reading of the volume, as regards its aim and structure, the conceptions of illocution and of perlocution, and the alleged exclusion of “non-seriousness”. Against the received reading, it is argued that “How to Do Things with Words” is structured as a proof by contradiction of the claim that all speech should be considered as action, that in illocution a major role is played by the conventionality of
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Мірончук, Тетяна, та Наталія Одарчук. "Іллокуція англомовного дискурсу виправдання (на прикладі творів сучасної художньої англійської та американської прози)". East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 3, № 2 (2016): 69–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2016.3.2.mir.

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У статті досліджується актоіллокутивний потенціал англійського побутового дискурсу виправдання шляхом зіставлення іллокутивних характеристик частотних у дискурсі виправдання мовленнєвих актів. Спираючись на змодельовані конструкти змісту виправдання, дифенсивну інтенцію мовця визначено передумовою породження дискурсу виправдання. У результаті вивчення наявних у науковій літературі класифікацій мовленнєвих актів визначено, що домінантна іллокутивна сила дискурсу виправдання включає складові інформування та переконування, що типово представлено констативом та асертивом. Власне мовленнєвий акт ви
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Stevanovic, Melisa. "Mitä kaikkea puheella voidaankaan tehdä?" Puhe ja kieli, no. 2 (June 1, 2017): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.23997/pk.64380.

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Kirja-arvio teoksesta John L. Austin 2016. Näin tehdään sanoilla (englanninkielisestä alkuteoksesta How to Do Things with Words 1962/1975 suomentanut Risto Koskensilta). Tampere: niin & näin. 186 s. ISBN 978-952-7189-05-4
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Rodríguez Ponce, María Isabel. "How to Do Things with Words en español: terminología, omisiones y adiciones." Hermēneus. Revista de traducción e interpretación, no. 20 (December 13, 2018): 483–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.24197/her.20.2018.483-508.

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Este artículo analiza algunos problemas de la traducción al español de How to Do Things with Words, de John L. Austin, principalmente los relacionados con la terminología, las omisiones y las adiciones, con el propósito de valorar su grado de desviación con respecto al texto original y de confirmar su tendencia a la domesticación, que suele ser la opción preferida en las traducciones de filosofía. El objetivo es plantear la conveniencia de una nueva traducción de esta obra para el ámbito académico hispánico.
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Yuguda, Amina. "Pragmatic Framing in Selected Online News Reports on Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Elections." Inverge Journal of Social Sciences 3, no. 4 (2024): 12–31. https://doi.org/10.63544/ijss.v3i4.99.

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This research analyses framing of news reports about Nigeria’s 2023 presidential elections. With textual evidence, it examines the pragmatic implications of language selections by some Nigerian journalists in the context of national elections. It contributes to the understanding of linguistic techniques used by journalists in the global South as a resource guide for the use of English as a second language. The study employed Mey’s (2016) and Searle’s (1969) theories for analysis. The corpus of the study consists of excerpts from six online news publications. Textual analysis established charac
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Books on the topic "How to do things with words (Austin, J. L.)"

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Bromwich, David. How Words Make Things Happen. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199672790.001.0001.

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Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker’s control of calculated effects) and the modern idea of literary autonomy (which assumes that “poetry makes nothing happen”) together have produced a misleading account of the relations between words and human action. Words do make things happen. But they cannot be counted on to produce the result they intend. The argument is enriched by examples from speakers and writers of various sorts, with close readings of the
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Who Do With Words. Chax Press, 2019.

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Who do with words: (a blerd love tone manifesto). Chax Press, 2018.

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Moran, Richard. The Exchange of Words. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190873325.001.0001.

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The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but is the socially recognized capacity to make one’s words count in various ways. We rely on this capacity whenever we tell another person something and expect to be believed, and what we learn from others in this way is the basis for most of what we take ourselves to know about the world. The Exchange of Words is a philosophical exploration of human testimony, specifically as a form of intersubjective understanding in which speakers communicate by making themselves accountable for the truth of what they say. This account weave
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Kaplan, Mark. Austin's Way with Skepticism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824855.001.0001.

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J. L. Austin is famous for the extent to which he wrote as if it is a condition, on the adequacy of what we say while doing epistemology, that it accord faithfully with what we would say in ordinary circumstances. Most would use the term “infamous”. Not long after Austin’s death, there formed a durable consensus: Austin’s commitment to pursuing an epistemology that is faithful to “ordinary language” was fundamentally misguided—born of a failure properly to understand the nature of the epistemologist’s project. This book argues, however, that the consensus is mistaken—that both the condition of
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Book chapters on the topic "How to do things with words (Austin, J. L.)"

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Mills, Philip. "Introduction: Poetic Promises—Austin Meets Nietzsche." In Poetry, Performativity, and Ordinary Language Philosophy. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78615-0_1.

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AbstractWhat can poetry bring to the philosophy of language? Little, if we believe John L. Austin’s exclusion of poetry and other so-called parasitic utterances from his consideration in How to Do Things with Words. And he is not the only one to operate such an exclusion as most contemporary (analytic) philosophers of language seem to leave poetic utterances aside (or reduce them to metaphors or fictional utterances). Contra Austin, I believe that Ordinary Language Philosophy (OLP), represented by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell in addition to Austin and others, has the potential to bec
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Rowe, M. W. "Harvard and Speech-Acts." In J. L. Austin. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198707585.003.0030.

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Abstract This chapter is about the semester Austin spent at Harvard in the first half of 1955. It considers the members of the philosophy department, and then describes the impact of Austin’s personality and outlook, and what exactly was found so fresh and liberating in his approach. It is argued that the impact of America on Austin was less philosophical than social and cultural, and that, removed from the competitiveness and class-consciousness of Oxford, he seemed much more approachable and relaxed. The second half of the chapter outlines the theory espoused in his ‘How to Do Things with Wo
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"Critical Review of How to Do Things with Words." In Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals). Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203805152-30.

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Rowe, M. W. "Truth and Logic." In J. L. Austin. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198707585.003.0027.

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Abstract The first half of this chapter examines the Austin/Strawson debate about the nature of truth, where Austin argues for a form of the correspondence theory, and Strawson argues for a version of Ramsey’s redundancy theory. It is argued that Strawson got the better of the debate, and that Austin’s unclarity about the link between statements and reality is fundamentally the same problem as his unclarity about the link between words and reality. The second half of the chapter urges that Austin’s view of truth was influenced by the Oxford Realists, and argues that the same applies to his pap
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Robinson, Peter. "Things Done with Words." In Poetry, Poets, Readers. Oxford University PressOxford, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199251131.003.0006.

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Abstract ‘WORDS are also actions, and actions are a kind of words’, Emerson boldly affirmed in r 844; just over a century later, Wittgenstein noted that ‘Words are deeds.’ J. L. Austin had begun to think about how acts can be performed with words as early as 1939, but in his William James Lectures, given at Harvard in 195 5 and published posthumously as How To Do Things With Words, he sets about analysing the forms of verbal actions. His contribution to philosophy has attracted some distinguished attention from poets and literary critics. Paul Muldoon published a poem called ‘[Austin]’ in Mado
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Bromwich, David. "Does Persuasion Occur?" In How Words Make Things Happen. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199672790.003.0001.

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The question whether persuasion occurs is surprisingly hard to answer. J. L. Austin provided specimens of verbal formulae that perform actions in the course of being said or by virtue of having been said, and illustrations of this kind may be found in poetry as well as in ordinary speech. But impassioned speech itself may yield effects it could never have anticipated. We can be fairly sure they will happen, but we cannot accurately predict what they will be. Examples include the complex political influence traceable to Edmund Burke’s anti-revolutionary pamphlet A Letter to a Noble Lord, and th
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Ricks, Christopher. "Austin’s Swink." In Essays In Appreciation. Oxford University PressOxford, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198183440.003.0009.

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Abstract The author of How to do things with Words’ knew how to do things with such wording as constitutes allusion-as is clear from J. L. Austin’s having given the world Sense and Sensibilia. The famous joke, which is not without pride and prejudice, is more than a quip because the displaced word sensibility so much enters, not into the equation, but into the opposite of equation. For a start, the register of ‘sensibilia’ is deliciously registered as coldshouldering the warm thought of ‘sensibility’.
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Macaulay, Ronald. "Pragmatically Speaking." In The Social Art. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195187960.003.0010.

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Abstract It is mainly philosophers, linguists, and other exotic breeds who are concerned with the literal meaning of simple statements. Ordinary people are more interested, as the philosopher J. L. Austin put it, in “how to do things with words.” Austin pointed out that we can do a variety of things when we speak. We do such things as asserting, denying, questioning, requesting, promising, threatening, offering, wagering, thanking, apologizing, insulting, flattering, welcoming, congratulating, excommunicating, declaring war, christening, and dismissing someone from a job. In some cases we actu
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Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. "Book." In Gothic Things. Fordham University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9781531503413.003.0006.

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This chapter focuses on written communications as privileged Gothic objects exerting uncanny agency. Considering Gothic “books” in relation to J. L. Austin’s concept of performative utterances, this chapter argues that, in one way or another, all written messages within Gothic narratives end up as performatives causing something to take place, and these “books” can be grouped into five sometimes overlapping categories of escalating agency starting with the recovered history or archive and then including four forms of what I call accursed books: the corrupting book, the grimoire, the portal, an
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Borg, Emma, and Sarah A. Fisher. "Meaning and intentions." In Meaning. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192866547.003.0006.

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Abstract This chapter examines the idea that meaning lies in the thoughts speakers intend to convey. It begins with the philosopher Paul Grice’s insight that what we communicate often departs from the conventional meaning of the words and sentences we use, as when a speaker ironically says, ‘It is a lovely day’, and thus implies that it is actually a horrible day. So-called ‘implicatures’ cannot be decoded entirely linguistically; instead, we have to take account of all sorts of other things we know about people and the world. The chapter then considers a development of the intentionalist proj
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Conference papers on the topic "How to do things with words (Austin, J. L.)"

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Cosmescu, Alexandru. "The illocutionary/ perlocutionary distinction: between the performative and the passionate utterance." In Conferință științifică internațională "FILOLOGIA MODERNĂ: REALIZĂRI ŞI PERSPECTIVE ÎN CONTEXT EUROPEAN" cu genericul G. Călinescu. 125 ani de la naştere, Ediţia a 18-a. “Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu” Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.52505/filomod.2024.18.35.

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This paper explores the distinction between illocution and perlocution in speech act theory, highlighting the complexity of interactions between these dimensions of the utterance. Building on a close reading of J. L. Austin’s analysis in “How to Do Things with Words” and Stanley Cavell’s article on the passionate utterance, the text argues that the conventional approach to speech acts, which focuses on illocution, overlooks the essential affective dimension of perlocution. Cavell proposes a reconceptualization of perlocution through the lens of passionate utterances, emphasizing the interdepen
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Reports on the topic "How to do things with words (Austin, J. L.)"

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MacFarlane, Andrew. 2021 medical student essay prize winner - A case of grief. Society for Academic Primary Care, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37361/medstudessay.2021.1.1.

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As a student undertaking a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC)1 based in a GP practice in a rural community in the North of Scotland, I have been lucky to be given responsibility and my own clinic lists. Every day I conduct consultations that change my practice: the challenge of clinically applying the theory I have studied, controlling a consultation and efficiently exploring a patient's problems, empathising with and empowering them to play a part in their own care2 – and most difficult I feel – dealing with the vast amount of uncertainty that medicine, and particularly primary care, pre
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