Philosophy of this Theory

If, as Charles Morris proposed in 1938, linguistics can be divided into syntax, semantics and pragmatics, then I am concerned solely with pragmatics, the use of language.1 Locke "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" Third Book "On Words"

Herder 1770

Husserl

Wilhelm von Humboldt purview microscopic, saying is positing and synthesis as if one doesn't know that saying something includes the previous existence of words which were used, or, at least, a shared understanding of how words are created (for made up words).

J. L. Austin "How to do things with words" 1955 statement not true or false, but felicitous if it achieves ends

John R. Searle "Speech Acts"

Fichte

My The Effect on the Speaker

I don't imagine that speaking has much effect on the speaker, not nearly so much as the original formulation of the idea being expressed. Of course, if speaking extemporaneously, one can be surprised, and therefore informed, by one's own speech, or the logical consequences of something one has said.

The effect of the speech act on the speaker, in terms of the topic of language and conflict, is to enhance or define the power of the words of the speaker over others, even if this changes dramatically, the mind is rarely so flexible. so words can have a great impact sometimes, and none at all others, principally for contextual reasons, and yet both speaker and hearer are, one can imagine at best, only conscious of the relative power of some of their interactions, probably no more than a few at most, and perhaps trends in the power relationship.