期刊名称：The Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations = Revista Română de Comunicare şi Relaţii Publice
印刷版ISSN：1454-8100
出版年度：2011
卷号：13
期号：2
出版社：National School of Political Studies and Public Administration
摘要：On June 28th1914, Gavrilo Pincip shot and killed Archduke Franz-Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. On July 28th1914, Austria-Hungary, in what for better or worse turned out to be a suicidal gesture, declared war on Serbia. The Great War followed, in part, as a result of this declaration of war which, in part, was a result of Princip’s murderous act. As a piece of predigested pop history, this explanation does not seem to present any particu- lar difficulties. But suppose we wanted to weigh up the two episodes involved in our story, perhaps to inform our audience that something would have happened with or without the as- sassination. In this case, we might notice that, whatever our instrument of choice, the two events in our summary are hard to measure in the same move. Not exactly the case of one going to work in one’s car and in a hurry, then asking which one was it really, but the difficulty is nonetheless perceivable. Akilling and a declaration of war are different kinds of things. The latter but not the former is a uniquely human phenomenon. The latter but not the former re- quires language and institutions. Searle’s new book is an account of this difference.
