文档介绍：J. L. AUSTIN
HOW TO DO THINGS
WITH WORDS
The William James Lectures
delivered at Harvard University
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1962
Oxford University Press, Amen House, London, E .C .q
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EDITOR'S PREFACE
HE lectures here printed were delivered by Austin
as the William James Lectures at Harvard Univer-
Tsity in 1955. In a short note, Austin says of the
views which underlie these lectures that they 'were
formed in 1939. I made use of them in an article on
"Other Minds" published in the Proceedings ofthe Aristo-
telian Society, Supplementary Volume XX (Ig46), pages
173 K, and I surfaced rather more of this iceberg shortly
afterwards to several societies. . ' In each of the years
1952-4 Austin delivered lectures at Oxford under the
title 'Words and Deeds', each year from a partially re-
written set of notes, each of which covers approximately
the same ground as the William James Lectures. For
the William James Lectures a new set of notes was again
prepared, though sheets of older notes were incorporated
here and there; these remain the most recent notes by
Austin on the topics covered, though he continued to
lecture on 'Words and Deeds' at Oxford from these notes,
and while doing so made minor corrections and a number
of marginal additions.
The content of these lectures is here reproduced in
print as exactly as possible and with the lightest editing.
If Austin had published them himself he would certainly
have recast them in a form more appropriate to print; he
would surely have reduced the recapitulations of previous
Editor's Preface
lectures which occur at the beginning of the second
and subsequent lectures; it is equally certain that Austin
as a