Meaning

1 senses
  1. An act carried out by speech, such as promising, ordering, greeting, warning, inviting and congratulating.

    Sprechakt, Sprechhandlung, Sprachhandlung

    мовленнє́вий актmovlennjévyj akt

More definitions
  • the use of language to perform some act

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
act carried out by speech:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act carried out by speech:

Forms

plural: speech acts
Singularspeech act
Pluralspeech acts

regular

See also

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