Phil 794S: Seminar - Speech Act Theory

Spring 2002 - READING SCHEDULE

Spring 2002. Mondays 3:30-6:00pm in Philosophy Seminar Room (374 Bartlett)
Prof. Kevin Klement (Please call me "Kevin".)



(† = on JSTOR, * = in Martinich's Philosophy of Language text)

Feb. 4 – Course Introduction

Feb. 11 – Austin, How to Do Things with Words, lectures I-VI

Feb. 18 – No class (President's Day)

TU Feb. 19 – Austin, How to Do Things with Words, lectures VII-XII

Feb. 25 – Austin, "Other Minds," (in Philosophical Papers)

Mar. 4 – Austin, "A Plea for Excuses," (in Philosophical Papers); Cavell, "Austin at Criticism," (Philosophical Review 74 (1965): 204-19.†, also in his Must We Mean What We Say? Cambridge UP, 1969, 97-114.)

Mar. 11 – Grice, "Meaning," (Philosophical Review 66 (1957): 377-88.*†); Searle, "Austin on Locutionary and Illocutionary Acts," (Philosophical Review 77 (1968): 405-24.†)

Mar. 18 – No class (Spring Break)

Mar. 25 – Searle, Speech Acts, chapters 1-3

Apr. 1 – Searle, Speech Acts, chapters 3-5

Apr. 8 – Searle, Speech Acts, chapters 6-8

Apr. 15 – No class (Patriot's Day)

WE Apr. 17 – Searle, "A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts," (from Expression and Meaning, Cambridge UP, 1979, 1-29.*); Searle, "Indirect Speech Acts," (from Syntax and Semantics, vol. 3, ed. by Peter Cole and Jerry L. Morgan, Academic Press, 1975. Also in Expression and Meaning.*)

Apr. 22 – Grice, "Logic and Conversation," (from Syntax and Semantics, vol. 3, ed. by Peter Cole and Jerry L. Morgan, Academic Press, 1975.*); Martinich, "Conversational Maxims and Some Philosophical Problems," ( Philosophical Quarterly 30 (1980): 215-28.†)

May 6 – Ginet, "Performativity," (Linguistics and Philosophy 3 (1979): 245-65.); Searle, "How Performatives Work," (Linguistics and Philosophy 12 (1989): 535-58. Also in Basic Topics in the Philosophy of Language, ed. R. Harnish. Prentice Hall, 1994, 74-95.)

May 13 – Vanderveken, "A Complete Formulation of a Simple Logic of Elementary Illocutionary Acts," (from Foundations of Speech Act Theory, ed. by Savas L. Tsohatzidis. Routledge, 1994, 99-131.)

E-mail Kevin at klement@philos.umass.edu with any questions or concerns.
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