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Ordinary Language by John Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein

developed in everyday exchanges can illuminate and even transform many of the problems with which philosophers have grappled. It i...

Major Philosophies and Discourse Analysis

In nine pages discourse analysis in terms of speech act theory 'performative utterance' is examined with the major philosophies of...

Private Language and Wittgenstein's Theories

green. The general assumption is that everything that is the color of a leaf is green, but the experiential views of that color m...

Legal Positivism and the Philosophical Contribution of Hart

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

Philosophers on Religious Ethics

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

Philosophical Arguments Pertaining to God's Existence

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

Law, Austin, and Hart

Austin has built this particular theory into what he calls "positivism," which is defined as what the law is, or, in more legal te...

Language Acquisition Issues

In seven pages theories of Hymes and Austin are among the considerations in this discussion of ESL or language acquisition with co...

Personal Belief in God and the Theories of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Soren Kierkegaard

In five pages this report presents the philosophies of these men regarding their personal beliefs about God in a first person narr...

Discussing the Mind

do with anything. The popular theory of mind to some extent broaches the concept of personhood. There must be a person associated ...

'Humean' Naturalism and Wittgenstein

neighbors. Such things do happen. When life happens, it is often unique and has little reference to the past. Yet, in examining t...

Three Scenarios Of Business Infrastructure

as a means by which to assert the formal aspect. Austin (2000) indicates how the basis of an informal group stature, as in a non-...

Terrorism Preparedness, Travis County, Texas

Balcones Escarpment, with the land to the west being more arid than the country to the east; the vegetation varies accordingly, ra...

Jurisprudence - Criticism of Austin’s Command Theory

deemed to be sovereign (Strauss, 1996). The law is then issued by that sovereign and will have the power of threat and force, wit...

Thomas Bernhard's Wittgenstein's Nephew

In five pages the philosophical and autobiographical aspects of this text are analyzed in five pages. Four sources are cited in t...

Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning

The writer reviews the book Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning, which is a study of the way in which ordinary people can commit ...

Context and Language Issue / Language Changes Context

In twelve pages this research paper focuses upon the speeches by Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. in a co...

Ordinary in 'A and P' by John Updike

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

American History

for an individual to have done something of importance in their life. It is not always important that they be recognized. It see...

Tan, Orwell and Baldwin: Language

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

Everyday Life in Literature

in bathing suits is so important. Not only are they attractive young women and fascinating to a 19-year old boy, but they are brea...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

The Role Of The First Language In The Acquisition Of A Second Language

There are a number of theories that have been developed when considering second language acquisition, especially in the context of...

The Role of First Language in Second Language Acquisition

expected and takes places as part of the usual culture, as seen in areas such as Mallorca, where the dialect may be seen as very s...

Language History Study

century. "He claimed that he made his language as simple as he could so that ordinary people could understand it, yet it is barel...

Levels of Language and Psychology

to make units, such as vowels and consonants, which are speech sounds in verbal language. The sounds are put together to make a wo...

St. John The Baptist

in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Works of Dewey, Mill, Nozick, Rawls, Locke and Burke and the Influences of Education, Society, and Politics

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...

Political Theories' Synopsis

the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which indivi...