Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Title
J. L. Austin on Language
Editors
Brian Garvey
Abstract
When my spouse once asked me ‘Where’s the milk?’ I thought that my answer ‘In the refrigerator’ was fine. Turns out, I was less helpful than I thought I was. The intended effect of my utterance turned out to be different from what it actually brought about. This feature of utterances is especially salient in discussions of perlocutionary acts, which are utterances that cause an effect in others (Austin 1975: 101). On the one hand, an utterance is produced by the speaker and so facts about the speaker’s mental life should play an important role in understanding what perlocutions are. On the other, perlocutions are what they are because they bring things about in the world, whether the speaker likes it or not.
Pages
32-49
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137329998_3
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date
2014
Keywords
social world, implementation intention, receive model, ecological psychology, Duchenne Smile
Disciplines
Philosophy
ISBN
978-1137329981
Recommended Citation
Lassiter, Charles, "When Words Do Things: Perlocutions and Affordances for Social Action" (2014). Philosophy Faculty Scholarship. 19.
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/philosophyschol/19
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This manuscript has been accepted for publication. The Version of Record is available from:
Lassiter, C. (2014). When Words Do Things: Perlocutions and Social Affordances. In: Garvey, B. (eds) J.L. Austin on Language. Philosophers in Depth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137329998_3.