Download or read book Speech Acts written by John R. Searle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1969-01-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How To Do Things With Words and one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades.'--Philosophical Quarterly