Philosophy of Speech Acts (The Spirit of Language Embellishment and Everydayness)

Author: Mikhail Sobotnik
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: John Langshaw Austin, a major representative of the Oxford school of speech-act philosophy among British philosophers and linguists, proposed that when we state any sentence, we actually perform three acts simultaneously. The locutionary act, illocutionary act, and perlocutionary act. The universality of the interlocutionary, consequent, and prospective properties of speech acts is the speech practice foundation and philosophical basis of the principle of general dialogue. This book introduces the philosophical content of speech and acts. Ordinary speech philosophy is based on the rejection of psychologism and the myth of intention, and is grounded in the constant focus on the empirical nature of natural language. This book addresses various questions raised by Wittgenstein and Austin through the analysis of concepts such as "constitutive rules," "satisfaction conditions," the spiritual dimension doctrine of non-locutionary acts, the distinction between language and proposition content, and the critical examination of the formalized status.