speech act


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Speech act
The notion speech act is a technical term in linguistics and the philosophy of language. There are several different conceptions of what exactly "speech acts" are.
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speech act
Noun
1. the use of language to perform some act
(hypernym) act, human action, human activity
(hyponym) congratulation, felicitation


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