John R. Searle, "Austin on Locutionary and Illocutionary Acts"

The distinction between locutionary acts (or, more specifically, rhetic acts) and illocutionary acts cannot be sustained. There are locutionary acts like "I hereby promise to come", which in virtue of meaning what they do, perform an illocutionary act. The locutionary act should be replaced with the propositional act, which is the expression of a certain proposition.

C.G. New, "A Plea for Linguistics"

Argues that Austin's claims about when we would say that someone did something deliberately in "A Plea for Excuses" are mistaken; recommends a more assiduous gathering of linguistic data before any claims about "what we say" are made.

J.L. Austin, "Unfair to Facts"

Strawson makes a spurious inference from a limited range of grammatical examples to the conclusion that facts aren't "in the world".