How to Do Things with Words¶
Austin, J. L. (1962). How to Do Things with Words: The William James Lectures Delivered at Harvard University in 1955.
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12 citations across 12 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Outcome-Defined Adequacy
- In speech-act theory, communicative success is felicity — illocutionary uptake and perlocutionary effect, not lexical form.
This sourceFelicity conditions, illocutionary uptake, and perlocutionary effect as the criteria of communicative success, independent of lexical form.
- In speech-act theory, communicative success is felicity — illocutionary uptake and perlocutionary effect, not lexical form.
- Performativity
- Speech Act Theory (Illocution, Perlocution)
Domain-specific¶
- The Saying and the Said
- Austinian and Searlean analysis distinguishes locution, illocution, perlocution, and felicity conditions
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- Austinian and Searlean analysis distinguishes locution, illocution, perlocution, and felicity conditions
Mechanisms¶
- Context-Condition Testing
- The discipline that guards it is to fix the required conditions from the governing convention before looking at the facts, so the bar is not bent to the desired verdict.
This sourceEdited by J. O. Urmson. Clarendon Press (1962). Sets out accepted conventional procedures and appropriate participants and circumstances as conditions for a performative act to succeed.
- The discipline that guards it is to fix the required conditions from the governing convention before looking at the facts, so the bar is not bent to the desired verdict.
- Dedication or Blessing Statement
- As a performative utterance it does what it says in the saying
This sourceEdited by J. O. Urmson. Oxford University Press (1962). Defines performative utterances as words whose appropriate issuance performs the act they name.
- As a performative utterance it does what it says in the saying
- Force Classification
- The discipline that keeps it honest is to classify by the act's conventional force in its actual setting, and to treat whether that setting's conditions truly hold as a separate check.
This sourceSeparates an utterance's conventional illocutionary force from the contextual felicity conditions required for the act to succeed.
- The discipline that keeps it honest is to classify by the act's conventional force in its actual setting, and to treat whether that setting's conditions truly hold as a separate check.
- Language Review
- A form field, in Austin's terms, is a performative: checking a box does not describe a pre-existing fact, it enacts a classification.
This sourceNamed because a form field enacts the classification it appears to record.
- A form field, in Austin's terms, is a performative: checking a box does not describe a pre-existing fact, it enacts a classification.
- Performative Formula and Context Binding
- It draws the crisp line between constitutive force and mere description, rehearsal, or aside — precisely the felicity conditions J. L. Austin identified for a performative to "come off," and the misfires that result when the conventional procedure or wording is not correctly executed.
This sourceDefines felicity conditions for performatives and the misfires caused when the conventional procedure is not correctly executed.
- It draws the crisp line between constitutive force and mere description, rehearsal, or aside — precisely the felicity conditions J. L. Austin identified for a performative to "come off," and the misfires that result when the conventional procedure or wording is not correctly executed.
- Pragmatic Force Walkthrough
- Walking content through that context and those conventions, the force resolves as a veiled threat, not a compliment — an illocutionary act the literal parse never contained.
This sourceDistinguishes illocutionary force from literal locution and treats context and conventions as necessary to identify the act performed in speaking.
- Walking content through that context and those conventions, the force resolves as a veiled threat, not a compliment — an illocutionary act the literal parse never contained.
- Public Witnessing and Recognition
- This is the ritual form of what J. L. Austin called a performative utterance — a declaration that, spoken by the proper authority in the proper setting, brings about the state it names.
This sourceEdited by J. O. Urmson. Oxford University Press (1962). Defines performative utterances as speech acts that perform an action when issued by the appropriate participants under appropriate circumstances.
- This is the ritual form of what J. L. Austin called a performative utterance — a declaration that, spoken by the proper authority in the proper setting, brings about the state it names.
- Witnessing And Public Recognition
- A contribution, a transition, a loss, an obligation, or a belonging is publicly acknowledged by specific, named witnesses, and the acknowledgment itself is the act
This sourceExplains that, in appropriate conventional circumstances, issuing a performative utterance is itself doing the act rather than merely reporting it.
- A contribution, a transition, a loss, an obligation, or a belonging is publicly acknowledged by specific, named witnesses, and the acknowledgment itself is the act
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