ANTH 104 Lecture 6: Lecture 6: Speech Acts ANTH 104
18 Sep 2018
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Austin: no, thre are plenty of utternaces that arent. Ethical prescriptions (it"s wrong to steal) (many exceptions; but except) And many of the things we say serve primarity to indicate somthing about the context in which were speaking or our utterances itself. We choose based on context, relationship, appropriatness. Why use tu vs. vous? (or tu vs usted) What does oh mean when it precedes a statement. You cant point to something and call it an oh . Must look at real world situations using the word. Preseeds disagreement: oh it was not that good . Its not the case that every itterance is verifiable, or can be declared. I"ll pick up the milk after work . And some utteracnes seem to make themselves true. In other words, they are true by virtue or being said) I promise i"ll pick up the milkk after work . I now prodounce you husband and wife .
