Elements of Speech Act Theory in the Work of Thomas Reid
@inproceedings{Schuhmann1990ElementsOS, title={Elements of Speech Act Theory in the Work of Thomas Reid}, author={Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith}, year={1990} }
T idea of a theory of speech acts, when taken in its strict sense, l has been employed of late to indicate a bundle of theories growing out of J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words of 1962. John Searle's book Speech Acts, published in 1969, is undoubtedly the most conspicuous contribution to this theory to date. With the lapse of time, however, our distance from these fundamental works has become great enough to allow some reflection on the criteria which must be met by a "theory of speech…
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