Austin, in providing his theory of speech acts, makes a significant challenge to the philosophy of language, far beyond merely elucidating a class of morphological sentence forms that function to do what they name. Hence the name of one of his best-known works How to Do Things with Words. Īustin pointed out that we use language to do things as well as to assert things, and that the utterance of a statement like "I promise to do so-and-so" is best understood as doing something- making a promise-rather than making an assertion about anything. John Langshaw Austin (26 March 1911 – 8 February 1960) was a British philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, best known for developing the theory of speech acts. Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, Rom Harré, John Searle, Rae Langton, Nancy Bauer, Alice Crary, Kevin Vanhoozer
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