How To Do Things With Words (Second Edition)

Austin, J.L.; J.L. Austin (Author); J.O. Urmson and Marina Sbisa (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 0674411528 / ISBN 13: 9780674411524

Published by A Harvard Paperback/ Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1978

About this Item

169 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Stains on back cover.

Seller Inventory # 1iiiBb0093

Bibliographic Details

• Title: How To Do Things With Words (Second Edition)
• Publisher: A Harvard Paperback/ Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674411528
• ISBN 13: 9780674411524
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition/ 3rd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Studies, Literary Theory & Lit. Criticsm
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • English Language, Grammar, Writing & Use

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Synopsis

John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin’s conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words.

For this second edition, the editors have returned to Austin’s original lecture notes, amending the printed text where it seemed necessary. Students will find the new text clearer, and, at the same time, more faithful to the actual lectures. An appendix contains literal transcriptions of a number of marginal notes made by Austin but not included in the text. Comparison of the text with these annotations provides new dimensions to the study of Austin’s work.

About the Author

J. L. Austin was a British philosopher of language.