Why Austin still matters

ABSTRACT I review in this paper how J. L. Austin relativizes the question of truth to contexts of the use of sentence-tokens, especially to the specific purposes with which a given user employs them. This has the consequence that truth becomes more matter of only being 'roughly' accurate,...

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Main Author: Kanavillil RAJAGOPALAN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Series:DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502016000300583&lng=en&tlng=en