Research Paper on:
Ordinary Language by John Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein

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expresses a standard of sensibility shared by a community of human beings who speak the language. It has essentially two roots. The first is a dialogical tradition, centering in  the life of Socrates: its central concern is sense. The second is a dialectical tradition, centering in the formal reconstruction of Plato: its central concern is truth. In both  traditions there is an idea of movement and of life, but one is actual and real, the other abstract and imagined. However, in both traditions the linchpin in which  everything turns is language. The only question is how to breathe life into language to preserve sense. To that question Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Austin have an answer. This  essay will examine the postulates of both philosophers while comparing their ideologies relevant to the subject of ordinary language/ ordinary talk. Two generations  of British philosophers joined with Wittgenstein by engaging in philosophical activity of the new sort. Although their individual interests differed, all shared the commitment to careful analysis of ordinary language  and the confidence that this method would tend to dissolve traditional philosophical problems. An approach to philosophy that suggests that the way in which language is used, learned and subsequently  developed in everyday exchanges can illuminate and even transform many of the problems with which philosophers have grappled. It is therefore classified as a branch of analytic philosophy. Wittgenstein laid  its foundations, but later such English philosophers as John Austin and Gilbert Ryle expanded it in the 1950s and 1960s. It differs from linguistics in that the features of a  language that linguistic philosophers seek to explain are usually determined by the philosophical problems that they wish to simplify. Philosophical elucidation is seen as achievable through sensitivity to the language