Comparative Analysis of Austin & Searle's Speech Act Theories<Tab/>

Speech-act theory was elaborated by Austin J. L., a linguist philosopher; this theory was the reaction of Austin and his coworkers in opposition to the so-called logical positivist philosophers of language. Austin in contrasts to logical positivism that could be assessed in terms of 'truth' and 'falsity' ('known as truth conditional semantics'), was keen on the way regular people use language in everyday situations. Moreover, he was persuaded that we do not use language to …

…force, the predictive power of certain speech acts and substantial amount of background experience and knowledge of different linguistic forms and socio-cultural variants. In other words, a complex analysis of discourse coherence. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1.Brown, G. &amp; G. Yule. (1996). Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press. 2.Coulthard, M. (1996). An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. New York:Longman. 3.Stubbs, M. (1998). Discourse Analysis. The Sociolinguistic Analysis of NaturalLanguage. Oxford: Blackwell. 4.Thomas, J. (1995). Meaning in Interaction. An Introduction to Pragmatics. NewYork: Longaman.