Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language'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 |
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 |
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