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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

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    In John Searle: Dimensions and taxonomy

    In his first major work, Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (1969), Searle treated speech acts much more systematically than Austin had. He proposed that each kind of speech act can be defined in terms of a set of rules that identify the conditions that are individually…

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