In these videos, a low - fi aesthetic and affection for the absurd gain conceptual focus through her careful use of language as a framing device and self - fulfilling speech act. (contemporaryartsociety.org)
The propositions, explorations, and qualifications that appeared in those lectures ultimately became a book, How to Do Things with Words, that received a good deal of attention in its own time and would become required reading for many students of critical theory as the twentieth century wore on.3 I will explore later why interest in speech act theory resurged in our contemporary moment, but first perhaps it is worth remembering a network of related developments at midcentury. (walkerart.org)
heaping rudeness upon Revis speech act Belichick, a normally empty data point if solely for this inescapable occurrent, he says with a corresponding move of the berth: wants to pick for the rating. (directlyfitness.com)