OXFORD ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY (SPEECH-ACT THEORY)

CONTENTS

ANCIENT (CLASSICAL):
   Epicureanism
   Neoplatonism
   Pre-Socratics
   Pyrrhonian Skepticism
   Sophists
   Stoicism
      Literature & Literary Theory

MEDIEVAL (c.350-c.1400):
   Literature & Literary Theory

EARLY MODERN:
   Renaissance (c.1400-c.1600):
      Literature & Literary Theory
   17th & 18th Century (c.1600-c.1785):
      Literature & Literary Theory

19th CENTURY (c.1785-c.1890):
   Romanticisms & Neo-Romanticisms:
      German & Anglo-American Idealism
      Existentialism
         Literature & Literary Theory
   'Victorian' Positivism:
         Literature & Literary Theory

20th CENTURY:
   Analytic Philosophy:
      Logical Atomism
      Logical Positivism
      Ordinary Language
      Recent
         Aesthetics
   Anglo-American Modernisms:
      'High' Modernism
      Liberal Humanism
      Myth Criticism
      Neo-Aristotelianism
      New Criticism
   Continental Philosophy:
      Idealism:
            Literary Theory
      Marxism:
         Frankfurt School
            Literary Theory
      Phenomenology:
         Existentialism
         Hermeneutics
            Literary Theory
      Psychoanalysis:
         Literary Theory
            Object-Relations Theory
            Jungian Analytical Psychology:
               Literary Theory
      (Post-)Structuralisms:
         Deconstruction:
            Literary Theory
         Deleuzean Theory:
            Literary Theory
         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle):
            Literary Theory
         Foucauldian Theory:
            Literary Theory
         Semiotics / Structuralism:
            Literary Theory:
               Russian Formalism
         Structuralist Marxism:
            Literary Theory
         Structuralist Psychoanalysis:
            Literary Theory
   Pragmatism:
      Literary Theory

AFRICA AND AFRICAN DIASPORA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

ASIA:
      Central Asia
      East Asia (Chinese):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South Asia (Indian):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South-East Asia

AUSTRALASIA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CANADA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CARIBBEAN:
   Literature & Literary Theory

EUROPE:
      Central Europe
      Eastern Europe:
         Russia:
            Literature & Literary Theory
      Northern Europe (Scandinavia):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      Southern Europe:
         Greece
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Italy
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Spain
            Literature & Literary Theory
      Western Europe:
         Eire
            Literature & Literary Theory
         France
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Germany
            Literature & Literary Theory
         UK:
            Scotland
            Wales
               Literature & Literary Theory

LATIN AMERICA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

MIDDLE EAST:
   Arabic/Islamic Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Israeli/Jewish Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory

USA:
   Literature & Literary Theory
   African American:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Native American:
      Literature & Literary Theory

ARTS:
   Architecture
   Arts (Performing)
   Arts (Visual and Plastic)
   Film
   Literature:
      Audience
      Author
      Literary Form & Genre:
         Drama
         Poetry
         Prose
      Literary Historicism
      Lit. History, Intertextuality, Canonicity
      Metaliterature
      Literary Representation (Realism)
   Music

COMMUNICATION:
   Interpretation
   Language
        Linguistic Criticism/Literary Stylistics

Reasoning: Logic, Rhetoric, Argument

GEOGRAPHY & THE ENVIRONMENT:
Ecocriticism

HUMAN BEING:
Body:

Gender (Feminist Theory)
Race (Critical Race Theory)

Sexuality (Queer Theory):

Queer Critical Theory

Mind:
Cognitive & Psychological Criticism

Self:
Writing the Self

KNOWLEDGE

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

Ethical Criticism

RELIGION:
Religion and Literature

NATURAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY:
Biology & Medical Sciences:

      Darwinist (Evolutionary) Criticism
   Chemistry
   Information Technology
   Mathematics
   Physics

SOCIAL FORMATION:

   Culture
   Economics
   History
   Law

Politics
Society

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS
CAREERS
CONFERENCES
JOURNALS
PHOTOS
PRIMARY SOURCES
SECONDARY SOURCES
TEACHING AND LEARNING
WWW GATEWAYS

ALTERNATIVE STANDPOINTS

Feminist Theory:
Aesthetics/ Critical Theory

Post-colonial Theory:
Aesthetics / Critical Theory

OXFORD ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY
(CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS / LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS / SPEECH-ACT THEORY)
(c. 1945 - 1965)

SUB-PAGES

Philosophers:

Topics:

Oxford Ordinary Language Aesthetics / Critical Theory

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Searle, John, ed. The Philosophy of Language. Oxford: OUP, 1971.
- Rorty, Richard, ed. The Linguistic Turn. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1967.
- Strawson, P. F., ed. Philosophical Logic. Oxford: OUP, 1967.
- Caton, Charles E. ed. Philosophy and Ordinary Language. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1963.
- Flew, Anthony, ed. Essays in Conceptual Analysis. London: Macmillan, 1960.
Selected Individual Works:
- Alston, William P. Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2000.
- Cavell, Stanley. "Austin and Examples." The Claim of Reason. Oxford: Clarendon, 1979. 49-64.
- Katz, Jerrold. Propositional Structure and Illocutionary Force. New York: Crowell, 1977.
- Tsohatzidis, Savas L. Foundations of Speech Act Theory. London: Routledge, 1994.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Vanderveken, Daniel, and Susumu Kubo, eds. Essays in Speech Act Theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002.
Selected Individual Works:
- Benveniste, Émile. "La Philosophie analytique et le langage." Études Philosophiques 18 (1963): 3-11.
  - Rpt. as "Analytical Philosophy and Language." Problems in General Linguistics. Trans. Mary Elizabeth Meek. Coral Gables: U of Miami P, 1971. 231-238.
- Chapel, V. Ordinary Language. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1964.

On-Line:

Bach, Kent: Speech Acts (Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Johnson, Lamont: Meaning and Speech Acts
Smith, Barry: Towards a History of Speech Act Theory. Speech Acts: Meanings and Intentions: Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of John R. Searle. Ed. A. Burkhardt. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1990. 29-61.
Wikipedia Encyclopedia:
- Ordinary Language Philosophy
- Speech Acts

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