J. L. Austin's research while affiliated with Cambridge and other places

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... Public argumentation would be impossible were it not for linguistic norms that allow speakers to express and mutually understand their thoughts and intentions. Competent users of a natural language can be thought to share syntactic and semantic rules determining what a well-formed, meaning-imbued utterance is (Chomsky 1965;Katz & Fodor 1964), as well as pragmatic rules enabling them to coordinate on non-literal meanings given how an utterance functions in context (Alston 2000;Austin 1962;Green 2009;Grice 1989;Sbisà, 2019;Searle 1969;Williamson 2000). As rules that provide evaluative criteria for all communicative practices, these linguistic norms are directly relevant to how the ideals of correctness and participation inform and shape communicative practices. ...