--- 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.' altloc: - http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/faculty/smith/articles/speechact.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Smith given: B. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1990 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-06-08 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/03/01 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Burkhardt given: A. honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 301 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/301/1/speech_20act.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: ~ lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:48 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 29-61 pubdom: FALSE publication: 'Speech Acts, Meanings and Intentions: critical approaches to the philosophy of John R. Searle' publisher: 'de Gruyter: Berlin, New York' refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:26:26 subjects: - phil-lang - phil-metaphys succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Towards a history of speech act theory type: bookchapter userid: 144 volume: ~