J. L. Austin

Citations

• “Ordinary language is not the last word: in principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon and superseded. Only remember, it is the first word.”

• “There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.”

• “Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.”

• “However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.”

• “Ordinary language blinkers the already feeble imagination.”

Les livres de J. L. Austin dans l'ordre

Les livres de J. L. Austin dans l'ordre de parution, de Ifs and Cans (1956) à Cómo hacer las cosas con palabras (2016).

1. 1Ifs and CansIfs and Cans1956
2. 2Philosophical PapersPhilosophical Papers1961
3. 3How to Do Things with WordsHow to Do Things with Words1962
4. 4Sense and SenibiliaSense and Senibilia1962
5. 5Sense and SensibiliaSense and Sensibilia1962
6. 6Sense and Sensibilia, Reconstructed from the Manuscript NoteSense and Sensibilia, Reconstructed from the Manuscript Notes by G. J. Warnock1962
7. 7Quand Dire, C'est FaireQuand Dire, C'est Faire1970
8. 8Le langage de la perceptionLe langage de la perception1971
9. 9Language and Mathematical EducationLanguage and Mathematical Education1979
10. 10The Works of J. L. AustinThe Works of J. L. Austin2000
11. 11Cómo hacer las cosas con palabrasCómo hacer las cosas con palabras2016