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performing the act in question--or at least the sentence one utters is
true if and only if one is performing that act. Examine this view.
6 Go more deeply into Cohen's problem.
7 If you have read it, pursue Alston's or Barker's theory of meaning.
Further reading
· The acknowledged classic on speech-act theory following Austin is
Searle (1969). But considerably better is Searle (1979a), a collection of
essays. See also Travis (1975) and Holdcroft (1978).
· Two excellent works (in addition to Schiffer (1972)) that connect
speech-act theory to other issues in pragmatics and to current
research in linguistics and psychology are Bach and Harnish (1979)
and Gazdar (1979). See also Cole and Morgan (1975), Levinson (1983),
Green (1989), and Sadock (2004).
· Ginet (1979) is an excellent paper, and illuminates Cohen's problem.
Ways out of the problem (none of them entirely satisfactory) have