How to do things with words
Print Book, English, 1975
Clarendon Press, Oxford [England], 1975
William James lectures, 1955
viii, 168 pages ; 20 cm.
9780198245537, 9780192812056, 9780674411524, 019824553X, 019281205X, 0674411528
2010976
Performatives and constatives; conditions for happy performatives; infelicities - misfires; infelicities - abuses; possible criteria of performatives; explicit performatives; explicit performative verbs; locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts; distinctions between illocutionary and perlocutionary acts; "in saying" versus "by saying"; statements, performatives and illocutionary force; classes of illocutionary force.
Delivered at Harvard University
Includes index