Review: How to Do Things with Words (William James Lectures)
User Review - Stefano - GoodreadsSome good ideas, but mostly Boring................... Read full review
Review: How to Do Things with Words (William James Lectures)
User Review - i! - GoodreadsLecture 1: distinction b/w 'sentence' & 'statement'; 'constantive'=true or false statement that is not a description; in some cases, to make an utterance is not to describe anything but to perform an ... Read full review
Review: How to Do Things with Words (William James Lectures)
User Review - Tenahh - GoodreadsWitty way of explaining grammar, I liked it a lot, it's not too scientific, even non-linguists can understand the humour :) Read full review
Review: How to Do Things with Words (William James Lectures)
User Review - Ralowe Ampu - Goodreadsthis book is really funny. i'm unfamiliar with the kind of philosophy where you're allowed to not seem to be saying anything definitive and final. austin's style floats around and is super open-ended ... Read full review
Review: How to Do Things with Words (William James Lectures)
User Review - Eric - GoodreadsThis is an interesting book in that, it seems to me, you could read it as the beginning of something, the end of something, or the beginning of the end of something. It certainly seems like a ... Read full review
Review: How to Do Things with Words (William James Lectures)
User Review - Goodreads1) The distinctions Austin makes are useful. 2) The distinctions don't hold up. 3) The collapse of the distinctions is useful.
Review: How to Do Things with Words (William James Lectures)
User Review - Mark Heyne - GoodreadsThe first text in the 'speech acts' movement. Necessary reading if you like Searle and Pinker. Read full review
Review: How to Do Things with Words (William James Lectures)
User Review - Allison - GoodreadsSaw a girl on the subway reading this! Woot. Read full review
Review: How to Do Things with Words (William James Lectures)
User Review - Agata - GoodreadsToo philosophical for my liking, but I guess I just fail at appreciating pragmatics. Read full review
Review: How To Do Things With Words
User Review - JA Pak - GoodreadsMade my head spin. Words, I hardly knew ya. (BTW, the author is JL Austin. Marina Sbisa is one of the editors. Wish there was a way to fix this on Goodreads'sad metadata page.) Read full review
