Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts

John Searle's Speech Acts made a highly original contribution to work in the philosophy of language. Expression and Meaning is a direct successor, concerned to develop and refine the account presented in Searle's earlier work, and to extend its application to other modes of discourse such as metaphor, fiction, reference, and indirect speech arts. Searle also presents a rational taxonomy of types of speech acts and explores the relation between the meanings of sentences and the contexts of their utterance. The book points forward to a larger theme implicit in these problems - the basis certain features of speech have in the intentionality of mind, and even more generally, the relation of the philosophy of language to the philosophy of mind.

• Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
• How to Do Things with Words: Second Edition (The William James Lectures)
• The Construction of Social Reality
• Literal Meaning
• Language: Key Concepts in Philosophy
• Readings in the Philosophy of Language
• Studies in the Way of Words
• The Lacanian Subject
• The Philosophy of Language
• Word and Object (Studies in Communication)