Farhin Hossain
Volume-XI, Issue-I, October 2022
Volume-XI, Issue-I, October 2022 | ||
Published Online: 31.10.2022 | Page No: 143-150 | |||
Austin on Constative and Performative Utterances: An Analysis Farhin Hossain, Research Scholar, Burdwan University, Burdwan,West Bengal, India | |
Most early analytic philosopher, namely, G. Frege, B. Russell, Logical positivists, think that we use language to describe some facts of the worlds. However, Austin holds that there are two types of linguistic utterances, i.e., constative and performative. Constative utterances are made to describe some facts of the world, whereas performative utterances are made to perform some acts. Performative utterances are neither true nor false, since they don’t describe any fact of the world. However in this paper, I have tried to explain and analyze Austin’s distinction between constative and performative utterance. In this connection, I have tried to explain the condition of happy performatives and criteria for distinguishing performative and constative utterances as provided by Austin. | |
Keywords: Constative, performative, descriptive fallacy, conditions for happy performative, criteria for performative utterances. |