Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part Two) - a podcast by Mark Linsenmayer
from 2018-03-26T13:22:35
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Continuing on How to Do Things with Words (lectures from 1955), covering lectures 5-9.
Austin tries and fails to come up with a way to grammatically distinguish performatives from other utterances, and so turns to his more complicated system of aspects of a single act: locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary. In doing so, he perlocutionarily blows our minds.
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