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John L. Austin

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John Langshaw Austin (1911-1960) was a leading British philosopher of the mid-20th century, a central figure in ordinary language philosophy. He spent his career at Oxford, where his influential lectures and seminars, rather than extensive publications, shaped a generation. He is best known for developing speech act theory and the distinction between constative and performative utterances.

Philosophy of LanguageLinguistics

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Sense and Sensibilia
How to Do Things with Words
Philosophical Papers

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