John Searle
From Geography
John Searle
John Searle (1996, page 59f ) emphasizes that all institutions are built up and reproduced by speech acts. To be sure, not all of social life is structured by speech acts, and society is certainly not built up by speech acts alone. Speech acts may structure the metabolism of society, but the biophysical work cannot be done by words.
- Wolfgang Zierhofer
Department of Human Geography, University of Nijmegen, PO Box 9108, NL ^ 6500 HK Nijmegen, The Netherlands; e-mail: w.zierhofer@nsm.kun.nl Received 24 September 2001; in revised form 28 March 2002
