Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

• Episode: Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part Two)
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• Duration: 01:12:05
• Published: 2018-03-26 15:22

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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