speech act

English

Noun

speech act (plural speech acts)

1. (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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Sprechakt (de) m
• Swedish: talhandling c, talakt c

See also

• speech act on Wikipedia.Wikipedia