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The 11 pages that link to J. L. Austin, each with the reason it gives.

• PragmaticsRelated: His account made the actions performed through language central to pragmatic inquiry.

• Gender performativityRelated: Austin’s work supplied a key precedent for Butler’s use of performativity.

• Speech actRelated: Austin introduced the distinction between saying something and doing something in saying it.

• Ordinary language philosophyRelated: Austin became the approach’s most influential practitioner and an organizer of its Oxford circle.

• Philosophy of languageRelated: He showed how utterances can perform actions rather than merely report facts.

• John SearleRelated: Austin’s lectures supplied the starting point for Searle’s systematic theory of speech acts.

• Speech act theoryRelated: His analysis of performatives launched the theory's central questions.

• Quentin SkinnerRelated: Austin’s account of utterances as actions supplies a key tool for Skinner’s method.

• R. M. HareRelated: Austin’s attention to what utterances do informed the linguistic setting of Hare’s work.

• William AlstonRelated: Austin’s speech-act approach informs the linguistic tradition Alston developed.

• Paul GriceRelated: Austin’s attention to language in use formed part of the philosophical setting Grice inherited.