Austin J.L. How To Do Things With Words

London: Oxford University Press, 1976. — 168 p.The William James Lectures delivered by J.L.Austin at Harvard University in 1955 is ‘a choice work by one of the most acute and original minds that England has produced in our time' (The Times Literary Supplement), were first published in 1962, the printed version being based upon his very full lecture notes. For this second edition the editors have returned to the original notes, and their revision of text and appendix makes this a clearer and, at the same time, more faithful record of Austin’s words.