Quote by Austin, John Langshaw
"The total speech act in the total speech situation is the only actual phenomenon which, in the last resort, we are engaged in studying."
"The total speech act in the total speech situation is the only actual phenomenon which, in the last resort, we are engaged in studying."
"When I say I am using the word in a normal way I am not then saying something which is false whatever I may say."
"The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them."
"How to do things with words."
"Knowledge is not a tool which can be shelved or unshelved at will."