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Austin on Locutionary and Illocutionary Acts

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ID10698441
AuthorsJohn R Searle (corresponding author)
Year1968
Volume77
Issue4
Pages405
Publication date1968-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Philosophical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2183008
OpenAlexW2317747954
LanguageEN
Citations received82

JN ATTEMPTING to explore Austin's notion of an illocutionary act I have found his corresponding notion of a locutionary act very unhelpful and have been forced to adopt a quite different distinction between illocutionary acts and propositional acts.2 I think this difference is more than a matter of taxonomical preference and involves important philosophical issues-issues such as the nature of statements, the way truth and falsehood relate to statements, and the way what sentences mean relates to what speakers mean when they utter sentences. In this paper I want to explain my reasons for rejecting Austin's distinction and for introducing certain other distinctions, and in so doing to show how these questions bear on some of the larger philosophical issues

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Citations per year1,52
Citation span1972 - 2026 (55)
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