John Searle's 1969 book "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language" introduced his theory of speech acts, which argues that in addition to transmitting information, utterances perform actions like making promises, giving orders, and asking questions. Searle analyzed how utterances perform these illocutionary acts through their conventional force rather than their propositional content alone. The book was influential in the fields of linguistics, philosophy of language, and pragmatics.
John Searle's 1969 book "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language" introduced his theory of speech acts, which argues that in addition to transmitting information, utterances perform actions like making promises, giving orders, and asking questions. Searle analyzed how utterances perform these illocutionary acts through their conventional force rather than their propositional content alone. The book was influential in the fields of linguistics, philosophy of language, and pragmatics.
John Searle's 1969 book "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language" introduced his theory of speech acts, which argues that in addition to transmitting information, utterances perform actions like making promises, giving orders, and asking questions. Searle analyzed how utterances perform these illocutionary acts through their conventional force rather than their propositional content alone. The book was influential in the fields of linguistics, philosophy of language, and pragmatics.