Towards a theory of communicative competence

Inquiry (United Kingdom)

Volumn 13, Issue 1-4, 1970, Pages 360-375

  Habermas, Jürgen ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0001742714     PISSN: 0020174X     EISSN: 15023923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00201747008601597     Document Type: Article

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16. J. R. Searle pursues a similar approach with his theory of speech acts: Speech Acts, Cambridge University Press, London 1969.
17. Manuscript T.U. Berlin, Sept. 1969.
18. This is why Searle conceives the linguistic rules which govern speech acts as what he calls ‘constitutive rules’. ‘Constitutive rules do not merely regulate, they create or define new forms of behavior’ (Speech Acts, p. 33).
19. ‘The hypothesis of this book is that speaking a language is a matter of performing speech acts according to systems of constitutive rules’ (Speech Acts, p. 38).