言语行为

Speech Acts

The theory of Speech Act is one which analyses the role of utterancesin relation to the behaviour of speaker and hearer in interpersonal comm-unication.It was originally put forward by John Langs haw Austin.a pro-fossor philosphy at Oxford University.In 1955,he gave a serics of lectu-res at Harvard University in U.S.A,and after his death,the written s-cripts of his lectures were published(1962)with the title How to Do T-hings with words.The theory aroused wide interests among the Linguisticphilosophers.Late,Searle and Grice,two ther philosophers made furthercontributions to the theory.