@inbook{e93412fec1ed40d8b824be1017413d94,
title = "Linguistic action theories of communication",
abstract = "Early work on the philosophy of language was unconcerned with language as a tool for communication: the pioneers of {\textquoteleft}ideal{\textquoteright} language philosophy were interested in how insights from logical languages might be applied to the study of {\textquoteleft}language{\textquoteright} in a very general sense. This chapter traces the development of a less formalized approach to meaning and communication based around linguistic action. It discusses Austin{\textquoteright}s speech act theory and Grice{\textquoteright}s theories of conversation and meaning and shows how this work laid the foundations not only for a more action-oriented account of communication but also a more psychological view of pragmatics.",
keywords = "speech acts, pragmatics, meaning, conversational maxims, relevance theory, epidemiology of representations",
author = "Tim Wharton",
year = "2012",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1515/9783110240450.241",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783110240450",
volume = "1",
series = "Handbooks of Communication Science",
publisher = "Mouton de Gruyter",
pages = "241--256",
editor = "Peter Schulz and Paul Cobley",
booktitle = "Theories and models of communication",
}