Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (871 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0511609213 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 446 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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His most recent publications include Mind: A Brief Introduction (2004), Consciousness and Language (2002) and Rationality in Action (2001, 2003). . John Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley
John Searle's Speech Acts made a highly original contribution to work in the philosophy of language. Expression and Meaning is a direct successor, concerned to develop and refine the account presented in Searle's earlier work, and to extend its application to other modes of discourse such as metaphor, fiction, reference, and indirect speech arts. The book points forward to a larger theme implicit in these problems - the basis certain features of speech have in the intentionality of mind, and even more generally, the relation of the philosophy of language to the philosophy of mind.. Searle also presents a rational taxonomy of types of speech acts and explores the relation between the meanings
Speech Act Theory A Customer If your reading Jacques Derrida, esp. Limited Inc and Psyche this work along with Austin's How to do Things with Words are essential. These two books are the fundamental texts of Speech Act Theory. So if you want to find out about Locutions, Illocutionary Force and whatnot check out this text.. THE SECOND PART OF A “TRILOGY” BY THE FAMED ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHER Steven H Propp John Rogers Searle (born 1932) is an American philosopher at UC Berkeley. He has written many other books, such as The Rediscovery of the Mind, The Mystery of Consciousness, Intentionality, Speech Acts, Mind: A Brief Introduction, Mind, Language And Society, The Construction of Social Reality, etc.He wrote in the Introduction to this 1979 book, “These essays represent a continuation of a line of research begun in ‘Speech Acts.’ Most of them were originally projected as chapters of a la
Searle is sensitive to detail, but I am most stuck by his penchant for bold distinctions and explanations. And he is systematic; the book considerably enlarges the earlier theory.' Brian Loar, The Philosophical Review'There is a great deal of meat in Searle's treatment of metaphor, as elsewhere in his book, giving it an important place among the steadily increasing works that are developing the foundations, implications and applications of act theory.' Monroe C. Beardsley, International Studies in Philosophy . The result is a volume that deserves more than a mealy-mouthed speech act issuance of the 'You ought