How to Do Things with Words

About “How to Do Things with Words”

How to Do Things with Words is a posthumously published book of lectures by the English philosopher J. L. Austin. It was first published in 1962 by Clarendon Press and Harvard University Press. The book is based on the William James Lectures Austin delivered at Harvard University in 1955. It is considered the founding text of speech act theory and a key work in ordinary language philosophy and linguistic pragmatics. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)