title: Towards a history of speech act theory
creator: Smith, B.
subject: Philosophy of Language
subject: Metaphysics
description: That uses of language not only can, but even normally do have the character of actions was a fact largely unrealised by those engaged in the study of language before the present century, at least in the sense that there was lacking any attempt to come to terms systematically with the action-theoretic peculiarities of language use. Where the action-character of linguistic phenomena was acknowledged, it was normally regarded as a peripheral matter, relating to derivative or non-standard aspects of language which could afford to be ignored.
publisher: de Gruyter: Berlin, New York
contributor: Burkhardt, A.
date: 1990
type: Book Chapter
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/301/1/speech_20act.html
identifier:   Smith, B.  (1990) Towards a history of speech act theory.  [Book Chapter]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/301/