My review of /How to Do Things With Words/ by J. L. Austin https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1337862405 …
@JohBri Turns out if you spend a *lot* of time looking in fine detail at what people actually say, you discover all sorts of megacool stuff.
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@JohBri I’m 25 years out of date on it, so I’m not sure what the best intro is. Wikipedia article is worse than useless. -
@JohBri This might be a starting point: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/heritage/Site/Publications_files/SILVERMAN_2.pdf … or maybe@sarahdoingthing can recommend smthing; she’s been reading recently - 1 more reply
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@Meaningness Interesting; it sounds like a kind of micro-sociology. -
@JohBri Yes, that’s a plausible description!
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