“Texts of Terror”: Rabbinic Texts, Speech Acts, and the Control of Mores

In 1962, J. L. Austin published a set of lectures entitled How to Do Things with Words. In this founding document of speech act theory, Austin argues that language not only can say things, but it can also do things (what he calls the illocutionary force of language). Austins signal example of the il...

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Main Author: Satlow, Michael L. 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1996
In: AJS review
Year: 1996, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 273-298
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