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How is the biblical text understood and how does it function in the life of the reader today? Richard Briggs first provides an illuminating introduction to the nature and claims of speech art theory. This seeks to extend our understanding of both spoken and written means of communication by seeing them not as merely representational or 'reality-depicting', but as acting or causing acts to be performed through the words themselves. Briggs goes on to discuss to what extent the application of speech act theory might be helpful in the interpretation of biblical texts. In one of the first book-length explorations of this topic, he examines in detail several biblical speech acts of particular theo...
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This book is a study of philosophical method in the work of John L. Austin, the man whom Richard Rorty has called «the most influential of ordinary language philosophers» (methodologically). Austin was an explorer and experimenter in philosophical methodology. This investigation focuses on the description, explication and assessment of those philosophical goals, procedures and techniques which Austin called «linguistic phenomenology.»