Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts

ISBN-13: 9780521313933 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 204 str.

John R. Searle

Opis

John Searle's Speech Acts made a highly original contribution to work in the philosophy of language.

Recenzje

'There is a great deal of meat in Searle's treatment of metaphor, as elsewhere in his book, giving it an important place among the steadily increasing works that are developing the foundations, implications and applications of act theory.' Monroe C. Beardsley, International Studies in Philosophy

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Origins of the essays; 1. A taxonomy of illocutionary acts; 2. Indirect speech acts; 3. The logical status of fictional discourse; 4. Metaphor; 5. Literal meaning; 6. Referential and attributive; 7. Speech acts and recent linguistics; Bibliography; Index.