On Austin And Searle's Speech Act Theory

Austin (J.L.Austin, 1911-1960) is the English renowned analysis philosopher after World War II, is the philosophy leader character of thought ordinary language of the so-called Oxford school, has the very tremendous influence in the English America philosophy. Austin's contribution is various, the concept and the speech act theory of the word has the behaviorwords" has original, permanent contribution to the philosophy and linguistics. After Austin, as an outstanding successor person of , speech act theory Searle took after Stan, Austin and Grice in the research results, attentioned from the exchange and the useaspect studies the language question, thus has established the consummation, the system speech act theory. Searle's speech act theory is the inherits,the revision, the development and the systematization of the Austin speech act theory . The speech act theory is an important stage, exploring the language significance in the western philosophy history. Studing it is of great historical significance and practical value.This article mainly carries on the discussion from following several parts:First part: The background of speech act theoryThis part of concrete elaborations speech act theory produces thesocial history background and the philosophy theory background .Second part : the main content of speech act theoryThis part is the key point of this article , mainly performs from four aspects to elaborate: (1) a statement and described some of the words; (2) speech act and its classification; (3) the word conduct behavior and its classification; (4) speech act and significance.Third part: the value and limitation of speech act theoryThis part mainly analyzes from two aspects: (1) theory value;(2) limitation. Scientific summary the contribution and insufficiency of speech act theory.