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%austin[e89,jmc]		Notes on How to do things with words

\noindent {\bf Austin, J. L. 1975:} {\it How to do things with words},
Harvard University Press.

making and accepting offers

Austin makes matters unnecessarily difficult by discussing the general
acceptance of the conventions as a requirement rather than making all
the definitions relative to a convention.