Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language - Softcover

Searle, John R.

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Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, this 1969 book provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.

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'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How To Do Things With Words and one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades.'--Philosophical Quarterly

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ISBN 10:  0521071844 ISBN 13:  9780521071840
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1969
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