J. L. Austin on Language

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Recollections of J.L. Austin

   1. Recollections of J.L. Austin

      • John R. Searle

      Pages 1-10

3. Speech-Act Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Austin on Language and Action

      • Marina Sbisà

      Pages 13-31

   3. When Words Do Things: Perlocutions and Social Affordances

      • Charles Lassiter

      Pages 32-49

   4. Etiolations

      • Joe Friggieri

      Pages 50-69

   5. How to Do Things without Words

      • Tom Grimwood, Paul K. Miller

      Pages 70-85

4. Ordinary Language and Philosophical Method

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Austin’s Method

      • Hanno Birken-Bertsch

      Pages 89-107

   3. Getting the Philosopher Out of the Armchair: J.L. Austin’s Response to Logical Positivism in Comparison to That of Arne Naess

      • Siobhan Chapman

      Pages 108-123

   4. Verbal Fallacies and Philosophical Intuitions: The Continuing Relevance of Ordinary Language Analysis

      • Eugen Fischer

      Pages 124-140

   5. Sense and Sensibilia and the Significance of Linguistic Phenomenology

      • Roberta Locatelli

      Pages 141-157

5. Language, Perception and Mind

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Austin on the Philosophy of Perception

      • Paul F. Snowdon

      Pages 161-176

   3. Austin on Conceptual Polarity and Sensation Deception Metaphors

      • Dale Jacquette

      Pages 177-196

   4. The Importance of Intentions in Introspection

      • Kevin Reuter

      Pages 197-211

   5. Ordinary Language and the Nature of Emotions and Motives

      • Harry Lesser

      Pages 212-226

6. Back Matter

   Pages 227-241

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Looking at the work of J.L. Austin, who subjected language to a close and intense analysis, this book deals with his examination of the various things we do with words, and with the philosophical insights he believed could be gained by closely examining the uses of words by non-philosophers.

• J.L. Austin
• Speech acts
• Ordinary language philosophy
• linguistics
• sense-data
• philosophy of perception
• John Searle
• twentieth-century philosophy
• British philosophy
• concept
• dance
• intention
• John Rogers Searle
• knowledge
• language
• logical positivism
• metaphor
• nature
• perception
• phenomenology
• philosophy
• subject

• Lancaster University, UK

  Brian Garvey

Hanno Birken-Bertsch, independent scholar, Germany Siobhan Chapman, University of Liverpool, UK Eugen Fischer, University of East Anglia, UK Joe Friggieri, University of Malta Tom Grimwood, University of Cumbria, UK Dale Jacquette, Universität Bern, Switzerland Charles Lassiter, Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, USA Harry Lesser, University of Manchester, UK Roberta Locatelli, University of Warwick, UK Paul Miller, University of Cumbria, UK Kevin Reuter, Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany Marina Sbisà, University of Trieste, Italy John R. Searle, University of California, Berkeley, USA Paul F. Snowdon, University College London, UK

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