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Over the past decades, there has been an ongoing debate about whether education should aim at the cultivation of emotional wellbeing of self-esteeming personalities or whether it should prioritise literacy and the cognitive development of students. However, it might be the case that the two are not easily distinguished in educational contexts. In this paper I use J.L. Austin's original work on speech acts to emphasise the interconnection between the cognitive and emotional aspects of our utterances in the classroom

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This page is a summary of: Emotional Speech Acts and the Educational Perlocutions of Speech, Journal of Philosophy of Education, June 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9752.12193.
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