speech act

English

Noun

speech act (plural speech acts)

(linguistics) An act carried out by speech, such as promising, ordering, greeting, warning, inviting and congratulating.

Hyponyms

utterance, act

Coordinate terms

illocutionary act, locutionary act, perlocutionary act

Translations

act carried out by speech

Danish: talehandling c
Finnish: puhetoimitus

German: Sprechakt (de) m
Swedish: talhandling c, talakt c

See also

speech act on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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