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J. L. Austin

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(1911–1960) British philosopher How to Do Things with Words (1962) Non-FictionSense and Sensibilia (1962) Non-Fiction How to Do Things with Words (1962) Non-Fiction ...

Austin, J. L.

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A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (3 ed.)

..., J. L. [ John Langshaw Austin ] ( 1911–1960 ) British philosopher How to Do Things with Words ( 1962 ) Non-Fiction Sense and Sensibilia ( 1962 ) Non-Fiction...

Austin, J. L.

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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English

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..., J. L. ( John Langshaw Austin ) ( 1911–60 ), British philosopher , born in Lancaster, educated at Balliol College, Oxford; he was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford from 1952 until his death. A writer and lecturer of uncommon with and style, Austin's characteristic approach involved applying the rigour of classical textual scholarship to ‘ordinary language’. During his lifetime, his work was mostly disseminated through a few learned papers (notably ‘Other Minds’ and ‘A Plea for Excuses’) and through his teaching. In Sense and...

J. L. Austin

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Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)

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2014
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...0J0L J. L. Austin 1911 – 60 English philosopher In such cases we should not know what to say. This is when we say ‘words fail us’ and mean this literally. We should need new words. The old ones just would not fit. They aren't meant to cover this kind of case. on being asked how one might describe the predicament of the character in kafka 's Metamorphosis who wakes to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach; see kafka Isaiah Berlin ‘Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy’ in Essays on J. L. Austin (1973) words fail us...

Austin, J. L.

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New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.)

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Austin, J. L.

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Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)

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Austin, J.L.

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The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary

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J. L. Austin

J. L. Austin  

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(1911–1960) British philosopherHow to Do Things with Words (1962) Non-FictionSense and Sensibilia (1962) Non-FictionHow to Do Things with Words (1962) Non-FictionSense and Sensibilia (1962) ...
Introduction: Muslim Activist Intellectuals and Their Place in
          History

Introduction: Muslim Activist Intellectuals and Their Place in History   Reference library

John L. Esposito and John O. Voll

Makers of Contemporary Islam

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...“Constitutional Organization,” in Law in the Middle East , ed. Majid Khadduri and Herbert J. Liebesny (Washington, DC: Middle East Institute, 1955), p. 27. 33. Hamid Enayat, Modern Islamic Political Thought (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982), p. 11. 34. E. I. J. Rosenthal, Thought in Medieval Islam (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University ...

1 Thessalonians

1 Thessalonians   Reference library

Philip F. Esler and Philip F. Esler

The Oxford Bible Commentary

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...in H. Tajfel, Human Groups and Social Categories: Studies in Social Psychology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). ———and Turner, J. C. (1979), ‘An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict’, in W. G. Austin and S. Worchel (eds.), The Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations (Monterey, Calif.: Brooks-Cole), 33–47. ———(1986), ‘The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Conflict’, in S. Worchel and W. G. Austin (eds.) (1986), Psychology of Intergroup Relations (Chicago: Nelson-Hall), 7–24. Vickers, M. (1972), ‘Hellenistic Thessaloniki’, JHS 92:...

26 The History of the Book in the Nordic Countries

26 The History of the Book in the Nordic Countries   Reference library

Charlotte Appel and Karen Skovgaard-Petersen

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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... [1960] S. Nordal , ed., Monumenta Typographica Islandica (6 vols, 1933–42) norway J. B. Halvorsen , Norsk forfatter-lexikon 1814–1880 (6 vols, 1885–1908) H. Pettersen , Bibliotheca Norvegica (1643–1918) (4 vols, 1899–1924; 2e, 1972–4) C. Sciøtz and B. Ringstrøm , Norske førsteutgaver, en hjelpebok for samlere av skjønnlitteratur , 2e (2006) H. L. Tveterås , Den norske bokhandels historie (4 vols, 1950–96) sweden Biblis (1957–97; 1998– ) Bokvännen (1946–97) J. Brunius , ed., Medieval Book Fragments in Sweden (2005) I. Collijn , Sveriges...

Qur'an and Woman

Qur'an and Woman   Reference library

Amina Wadud-Muhsin

Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook

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...women. 9. M. M. Bakhtin , Speech Genres and Other Late Essays , translated by Vern W. McGhee, edited by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986), pp. 6–7. 11. Alvin J. Schmidt , Veiled and Silenced: How Culture Shaped Sexist Theology (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1989), Introduction, p. xiii. 12. Schmidt , Veiled and Silenced , pp. 59–60. 13. Ivan...

Austin Ernest Duncan-Jones

Austin Ernest Duncan-Jones  

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(1908–67)A. E. Duncan-Jones was born in Cambridge on 5 August 1906 and died in Birmingham on 2 April 1967. He was the son of the Very Revd Arthur Stuart ...
Walter Garrison Runciman

Walter Garrison Runciman  

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(1934–)W. G. (Garry) Runciman was born on 10 November 1934, the eldest son of the 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College ...
George Andrew Paul

George Andrew Paul  

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(1912–62)George Andrew Paul was born in Corsock, Dumfriesshire on 18 May 1912 and died in a sailing accident on Coniston Water in the Lake District. He undertook his higher ...
constative

constative  

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Term used by J. L. Austin to denote a speech act with which one declares something to be the case, as opposed to performing other things.
John Rogers Searle

John Rogers Searle  

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(1932–)Americananalytic philosopher, best known for his work on speech act theory, but also well known for his work on the philosophy of mind. Born in Colorado, Searle completed his undergraduate ...
Ranters

Ranters  

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A grouping of people with antinomian and pantheistic tendencies in 17th-cent. England. They were probably a disparate collection of individuals on the fringes of radical religious sects who attracted ...
performative

performative  

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Executive speech acts: utterances which do something as well as merely saying something. A performative is not merely a factual statement, but is in itself an enactment (at least in an appropriate ...
James Opie Urmson

James Opie Urmson  

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(1915–)James Opie Urmson was born in Hornsea, Yorkshire on 4 March 1915. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he gained a first ...
Leontyne Price

Leontyne Price  

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(b Laurel, Miss., 1927).Amer. soprano. Sang Mrs Ford in Falstaff in student prod. at Juilliard Sch. Chosen by Virgil Thomson to sing in revival of Four Saints in Three Acts in NY and Paris, 1952. ...

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