creators_name: Smith, B. editors_name: Burkhardt, A. type: bookchapter datestamp: 1998-06-08 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:48 metadata_visibility: show title: Towards a history of speech act theory ispublished: pub subjects: phil-lang subjects: phil-metaphys full_text_status: public abstract: 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. date: 1990 date_type: published publication: Speech Acts, Meanings and Intentions: critical approaches to the philosophy of John R. Searle publisher: de Gruyter: Berlin, New York pagerange: 29-61 refereed: FALSE citation: Smith, B. (1990) Towards a history of speech act theory. [Book Chapter] document_url: http://cogprints.org/301/1/speech_20act.html