In 1962, J.L. Austin changed the face of pragmatic linguistic analysis with his famous work How to Do Things with Words. Claiming that language does not simply describe the world but also changes it, ...

Hot tears irrepressible. How to Do Things with Tears inevitably recalls How to Do Things with Words, J. L. Austin's account of the ways in which speakers do and do not get things done with language.

In J. L. Austin’s landmark book on How to Do Things with Words, a series of lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955, Austin wrote: “The phenomenon to be discussed is very widespread ...

Taking its cue from J L Austin's infamous How to Do Things With Words, which argued that language doesn't just reflect the world but is used to achieve things in the world, this book approaches ...