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Searle, John R.

From The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
John Rogers Searle (1932-) has made an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of language. His work on the speech act theory, with the well-known Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (1969), has been among the most influential in linguistics and applied linguistics, specially within the field of pragmatics. John R. Searle's work has also been recognized for his research on the philosophy of mind and social philosophy. John R. Searle was born in Denver, Colorado, and studied at the University of Wisconsin from 1949 until 1952. He then attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar where he studied under the influence of John Austin from 1952 to 1959. At Oxford University he obtained a bachelor of arts (1955), a master of arts (1959), and a doctorate in philosophy (1959). He is currently a Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. During his career, John R. Searle has been a lecturer and a visiting professor at several prestigious…
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Full text Article John Searle

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John Searle has published on topics in the philosophy of mind, language and cognitive psychology. His work has been highly controversial, no doubt as a result of Searle's uncompromising stance on various issues and his taste for the intellectual equivalent of ‘see you outside, jackets off’. This has…
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Since the whole project of computational psychology has turned out to be a vast thought experiment, touching reality only here and there, it is only fitting that the most telling criticisms of the Turing double analogy between brains and computers, thinking and computing, should have been formulated…
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Full text Article Searle, John R(ogers) (1932– )

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The reference (or denotation) of a referring expression (e.g., a proper name or a singular term) is specified by means of a description (normally understood as specifying the sense of the referring expression). Since descriptions specify senses, one can understand a description (and hence know the…
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Full text Article discourse analysis

From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
An omnibus term to describe a wide range of socio-cultural analytic perspectives developed in the aftermath of the linguistic turn in the social sciences during the 1960s, at the broadest level, the domain of discourse analysis encompasses the study of language use beyond the level of the sentence…
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Full text Article Searle, John

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1932- ♦ US philosopher Born in Denver, Colorado, he taught at Oxford (1956-59) and since 1959 has been professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. In such works as Speech Acts (1969) and Expression and Meaning (1979) he expounded a distinctive approach to the study of…
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Full text Article Ireland, John Nicholson

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English composer. His works include the mystic orchestral prelude The Forgotten Rite (1913), a piano concerto (1930), and several song cycles. His pupils include Benjamin Britten and E J Moeran. He was born in Bowdon, Cheshire, and was educated at Leeds Grammar School and at the Royal College of…
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He studied at the Royal College of Music (1893–1901) with Charles Stanford (composition) and Frederick Cliffe (piano). During the next two decades he was organist and choirmaster at several churches, chiefly at St. Luke’s Church in Chelsea, where he served from 1904 to 1926. In 1905 he received a…
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Full text Article ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY

From Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
Ordinary language philosophy (OLP) is the name given to a philosophical movement that developed in England during the years between the two World Wars and enjoyed its heyday in the late 1940s through the early 1960s. Its adherents saw ordinary, everyday language as the starting point for their…
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The advent of cognitive psychology in the mid 20th century opened up the question of the best models with which to represent the cognitive processes that were presumed to underlie overt cognitive performances. It was all very well to have fashioned a representation of a body of knowledge, but how…
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