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Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Vechta, course: Pragmatics: Language in Context, language: English, abstract: The following seminar paper deals with John L. Austin's "How to Do Things withWords" and the established speech act theory in it. First, since Austin is theoriginator of the three-part division 'locution, illocution, and perlocution', his lifeand lectures will be shortly reflected. Because of the fact that the introducedperlocution is based on the illocution and locution, I will start…mehr

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Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Vechta, course: Pragmatics: Language in Context, language: English, abstract: The following seminar paper deals with John L. Austin's "How to Do Things withWords" and the established speech act theory in it. First, since Austin is theoriginator of the three-part division 'locution, illocution, and perlocution', his lifeand lectures will be shortly reflected. Because of the fact that the introducedperlocution is based on the illocution and locution, I will start analyzing the latter inorder to maintain this stream of logic. Furthermore, problems this approach bringsalong will be explained and several everyday-life examples will support thearguments. In conclusion, the influence of Austin's speech act theory will beevaluated.