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  • If you are an Austinite, or Austinian, or are Austintatious, or whatever you call people from Austin, I hope to see you there.

    BSNYC Road Dairy: Getting There is Half the Pun BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Guillory does not discuss de Man's quite idiosyncratic displacements of the Austinian notion of the performative, or his equally emphatic revision of a

    Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

  • I've drawn on Coppa's work, and Sonia Katyal has a relevant piece that applies Austinian theories of performative language to copyright and slash fan fiction, but there's more to be done.

    Recent reading Rebecca Tushnet 2006

  • We have long departed from the Austinian theory that the science of jurisprudence is based on command.

    The State and the Individual 1968

  • (Similar criticisms of the Austinian position have been made by Scandi - navian jurists, notably Karl Olivecrona.)

    CONCEPT OF LAW GRAHAM HUGHES 1968

  • Command, sanction, and duty are thus key terms in the Austinian scheme.

    CONCEPT OF LAW GRAHAM HUGHES 1968

  • The law schools were steeped in classical syllogistic methods of applying the law to individual cases as previously decided and in the Hobbesian-Austinian view that the law was “the command of the sovereign.”

    PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968

  • Old Austinian number one gratefully seized the opportunity to escape from Old Austinian number two, and lose himself in the crowd.

    The Pothunters 1928

  • Ward's House, which, as any Austinian could have told you, was the rowdiest house in the School.

    The Pothunters 1928

  • Austinian number two (whom he emphatically detested, and had hoped to avoid), and was conversing with him in a nervous manner, the clearness of his replies being greatly handicapped by a feeling, which grew with the minutes, that he would never be able to get rid of him and go in search of Old Austinian number three, his bosom friend.

    The Pothunters 1928

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