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J. L. Austin was a British philosopher of language.
Immensely worth reading…What is made available here is a choice
work by one of the most acute and original minds that England has
produced in our time…The myth that Oxford philosophers in general,
and Austin in particular, do nothing but examine the details of
ordinary linguistic usage should be exploded once and for all by
this new book.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Austin had an extraordinarily keen ear for the subtleties of
English and a remarkable sensitivity to the aptness of one
expression as opposed to another in a given linguistic situation.
To read him is not only a pleasure; it is also to learn much about
English and to gain a new respect for its proper use.
*The Massachusetts Review*
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