Continuing on How to Do Things with Words (lectures from 1955), covering lectures 5-9. Austin tries and fails to come up with a way to grammatically distinguish performatives from other utterances, and so turns to his more complicated system of aspects of a single act: locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary. In doing so, he perlocutionarily blows our minds. Listen to <a href= "http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2018/03/19/ep186-1-austin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">part one</a> first, or get the ad-free <a href= "http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2018/03/18/ep186-austin-citizen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Citizen Edition</a>. <a href= "http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/support" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Please support PEL!</a> End song: "The Promise" by When In Rome; hear singer Clive Farrington on <a href= "https://nakedlyexaminedmusic.com/nem-40-clive-farrington-when-in-rome-one-hit-wonderful/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nakedly Examined Music #40</a>.

Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part One)

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