The Discussion On The Theory Of Speech Acts Of Austin

Austin was one of the most influential philosophy authorities after World War n in England, the founder of the theory of speech acts, the main representative person of the Oxford school of thought of the ordinary language philosophy. He established the theory of speech acts in 50 ages and brought up the theory :-"to say something is to do something ". This theory changed or perfected the people's essential cognition to language , He also brought the investigation to language into the behavior of people and investigated these two parts together . The theory of speech acts had the important meaning in the development of the language philosophy . In brief, the theory of Austin is "to say something is to do something at the same time ". This theory connected language with the behavior of people together , this was a special contribution that Austin gave in the realm of the language philosophy . The philosopher of America -Searle inherited and developed this theory and made it influence the development of contemporary philosophy , logic and linguistics profoundly .The cultural inheritance that this theory left to us was very huge and plentiful, To research this theory very clearly and overall is beyond the author's ability , knowledge and .the article's space , so in this paper , through elaborating on the following theories that composed the theory of speech acts -Attaching importance to the preferential status of the ordinary language philosophy A the distinction theory of language and speeclu the distinction theory of performative utterance and constative utterance , Three theories of speech acts, Three theoriesreplaced the distinction theory of performative utterance and constative utterance, the author introduced the contents, philosophy significance and contribution of this theory . The theory of speech acts has the extreme research value , the author hopes that he could use this chance and make great efforts to expand the room for cultural exchange between Chinese and Western philosophy.