John Langshaw Austin and the Performative view of language. Austin appears on the scene at the exact historic moment in the debates about language and serves as the spokesperson for modern philosophy thereby revolutionizing not only analytic philosophy but also linguistics as an autonomous science. In this article, I call into question the supremacy of logical positivism, via a discussion of the concepts of performative(s), of speech act(s), of uptake as well as the illocutionary acts that are interrelated in a very special way in his writing. I contend in this paper that Austin is a "deconstructor". I consider his approach to language as a "performative view" based on the fact that there exists in his writing a point of conflict that questions the very existence of the borderlines between philosophy and linguistics in the field of language study.
performative; illocutionary; speech act; uptake; performative view