John Searle – Speech Acts meets Civilisation
Earlier this week Magnus and I went to audit a guest lecture with the famous language philosopher John Searle at the University of Oslo. John Searle, who is professor at University of California and who did an exchange semester to Oslo nearly forty years ago, is famous for his theories on speech acts. In these theories he presents a typology of actions a language can perform. This can be exemplified by assertive acts which tells us something about the world,…