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

Derived terms

• speech act participant

 

Translations

act carried out by speech

• Catalan: acte de parla (ca) m
• Danish: talehandling c
• Dutch: taalhandeling (nl) f, taaldaad m
• Finnish: puhetoimitus
• French: acte de langage (fr) m
• German: Sprechakt (de) m
• Greek: γλωσσική πράξη f (glossikí práxi)
• Hungarian: beszédaktus (hu)
• Italian: atto linguistico m
• Polish: akt mowy m
• Portuguese: ato de falo m
• Spanish: acto de habla m
• Swedish: talhandling c, talakt c

See also

• speech act on Wikipedia.Wikipedia