Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language.

Searle, John R

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1969

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First edition of "one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades" (The Philosophical Quarterly). Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his brother and sister-in-law on the front free endpaper, "Best Wishes to William Rogers from John Searle." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by R.B. Kitaj. This book has immediately, and justly, been accorded the status of a major contribution to the philosophy of language. The brilliant but programmatic insights of Austin's How to do things with words are systematically developed and integrated with the more recent work of philosophers such as Grice, Rawls and Searle himself to produce an apparently comprehensive and certainly illuminating general theory, summarized in what Searle terms the 'main hypothesis' of the book, speaking a language is engaging in a rule-governed form of behavior. "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" (The Philosophical Quarterly).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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