How to do things with words (The William James lectures) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019824553X ISBN 13: 9780198245537

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1786

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author

J. L. Austin is at University of Oxford.

Review

Immensely worth reading...What is made available here is a choice work by one of the most acute and original minds that England has produced in our time...The myth that Oxford philosophers in general, and Austin in particular, do nothing but examine the details of ordinary linguistic usage should be exploded once and for all by this new book. (Times Literary Supplement)

Austin had an extraordinarily keen ear for the subtleties of English and a remarkable sensitivity to the aptness of one expression as opposed to another in a given linguistic situation. To read him is not only a pleasure; it is also to learn much about English and to gain a new respect for its proper use. (The Massachusetts Review)

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1786
• ISBN 10: 019824553X
• ISBN 13: 9780198245537
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2