Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts

by John Rogers Searle

Book Overview

John Searle's Speech Acts made a highly original contribution to work in the philosophy of language. Expression and Meaning is a direct successor, concerned to develop and refine the account presented in Searle's earlier work, and to extend its application to other modes of discourse such as metaphor, fiction, reference, and indirect speech arts. Searle also presents a rational taxonomy of types of speech acts and explores the relation between the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521313937
• ISBN13: 9780521313933
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"