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The contents of this article are a pragmatic, simplified, and adapted version of John Austin’s (1962) work on speech act theory (SAT), first presented at Oxford University between 1951 and 1954 and at ...

My words, thoughts, and ideas are now submerged deep in a vat of midnight dark molasses and some days I can no longer ...

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