The author argues that the categories "true" and "false" really mean that a statement was either proper or improper considering a speaker's "knowledge of the facts" and his purposes for speaking.
This work notes that the statement "I call you offside" is the same as an official saying "You were offside." The author argues that the categories "true" and "false" really mean that a statement was either proper or improper considering a speaker's "knowledge of the facts" and his purposes for speaking. It ends by describing five types of performatives, including verdictives and behabitives, and argues that there is no difference between performatives and constantives. Compiled from its author's William James lectures at Harvard, this work presents a distinction between locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts, and concludes that every utterance is really a ? speech act. FTP, name this linguistic analysis of speech by John Austin.
This work notes that the statement "I call you offside" is the same as an official saying "You were offside."
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