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This book, first published in 1990, combines an introduction to speech-act theory as developed by J. L. Austin with a survey of critical essays that have adapte

This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding t

'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How To Do Things With Words and one of the mo

In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology. Every technical term is an expression of the assumptions and theore