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Speech Acts:

An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
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Cambridge University Press, Jan 2, 1969 - Philosophy - 203 pages
Publisher's description: Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.
  

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Review: Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

User Review  - Paul Thiem - Goodreads

I had the privilege of taking Philosophy of Mind with Prof. Searle as an undergrad at Cal. This was required reading for the class. A classic work in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind ... Read full review

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User Review  - Mary - Goodreads

As with most things, I started out entirely confused about what, exactly, Searle was even saying. Around a hundred pages later, I checked Wikipedia and the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and ... Read full review

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Contents

Methods and scope
3
2 Linguistic characterizations
4
3 The verification of linguistic characterizations
12
4 Why study speech acts?
16
5 The principle of expressibility
19
Expressions meaning and speech acts
22
2 Predication
26
4 Propositions
29
Prediction
97
2 Nominalism and the existence of universals
103
3 Ontological commitments
106
4 The term theory of propositions
113
5 Predicates and universals
119
6 Is predication a speech act?
121
7 Rules of predication
123
SOME APPLICATIONS OF THE THEORY
129

5 Rules
33
6 Meaning
42
7 The distinction between brute and institutional facts
50
The structure of illocutionary acts
54
a complicated way
57
2 Insincere promises
62
4 Extending the analysis
64
Reference as a speech act
72
1 Use and mention
73
2 Axioms of reference
77
3 Kinds of definite referring expressions
81
5 The principle of identification
85
6 Qualifications to the principle of identification
88
7 Some consequences of the principle of identification
91
8 Rules of reference
94
Three fallacies in contemporary philosophy
131
1 The naturalistic fallacy fallacy
132
2 The speech act fallacy
136
3 The assertion fallacy
141
meaning as use
146
5 Alternative explanations
149
Problems of reference
157
2 Proper names
162
Deriving ought from is
175
1 How to do it
177
2 The nature of the issues involved
182
3 Objections and replies
188
Index
199
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John Searle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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JSTOR: Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language.
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Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - Searle, John
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. New York, Cambridge University Press. [bookstore]. Searle, J. (1972). ...
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Citations: Speech Acts: An Essay on the Philosophy of Language ...
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Meaning and Speech Acts. Volume I: Principles of Language Use. Volume II: Formal Semantics of Success and Satisfaction. Daniel Vanderveken ...
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Speech acts: An essay in the philosophy of language. Cambridge, uk: Cambridge University Press. STEWART, ec (1971). American cultural patterns: A ...
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Review of "Meaning and speech acts
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press. 7 Searle, John R. (1971). "What is a speech act? ...
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Speech Acts
Searle, J. (1969) Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press. (Presents a theory of speech acts ...
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About the author (1969)

John R. Searle is Mills Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language at the University of California, Berkeley.

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