“Texts of Terror”: Rabbinic Texts, Speech Acts, and the Control of Mores
In 1962, J. L. Austin published a set of lectures entitled How to Do Things with Words. In this founding document of speech act theory, Austin argues that language not only can say things, but it can also do things (what he calls the illocutionary force of language). Austins signal example of the il...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
1996
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AJS review
Year: 1996, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 273-298 |
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