Item #000012674 How to Do Things with Words. J. L. Austin.
How to Do Things with Words

How to Do Things with Words

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [4], 2-166, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.25 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955. Slater 25. Austin is one of the principal figures in the development of ordinary language philosophy which became extraordinarily influential in analytic philosophy during the twentieth century. How to Do Things with Words is Austin's best-known work, and is largely concerned with speech acts (when a speaker uses language to do something over and above or instead of expressing a proposition). The study of speech acts has since become a significant area of research in linguistics and philosophy of language. A very attractive copy of this important and influential work, uncommon in such fine condition. Near Fine / Very Good+. Item #000012674

Just a touch of foxing to the top textblock; jacket has minor toning and a small crease on its rear flap.

Price: $750.00

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