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New Work on Speech Acts C

by Fogal Et Al
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780198738831
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Academic
  • Publisher Imprint: Academic
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  • Pages: 448
  • Original Price: GBP 100.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 794 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Language

Speech-act theory is the interdisciplinary study of the wide range of things we do with words. Originally stemming from the influential work of twentieth-century philosophers, including J. L. Austin and John Searle, recent years have seen a resurgence of work on the topic. On one hand, a new generation of linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists have made impressive progress toward reverse-engineering the psychological underpinnings that allow us to do so much with language. Meanwhile, speech-act theory has been used to enrich our understanding of pressing social issues that include freedom of speech, racial slurs, and the duplicity of political discourse.

This volume presents fourteen new essays by many of the philosophers and linguists who have led this resurgence. The topics span a methodological range that includes formal semantics and pragmatics, foundational issues about the nature of linguistic representation, and work on a variety of forms of indirect and/or uncooperative speech that occupies the intersection of the philosophy of language, ethics, and political philosophy. Several of the contributions demonstrate the benefits of integrating the methodologies and perspectives of these literatures. The essays are framed by a comprehensive introductory survey of the contemporary literature written by the editors.

Daniel Fogal is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University.

Daniel W. Harris is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Matt Moss is Teaching Fellow in General Education at Harvard College.

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