In the philosophy of language and linguistics, a speech act is something expressed by an individual that not only presents information but performs an...

Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage (SPEECH) Act is a 2010 federal statutory law in the United States that makes foreign...

by Bach and Harnish in 'Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts' (1979), an illocutionary act is an attempt to communicate, which they analyse as the...

In the United States, freedom of speech and expression is strongly protected from government restrictions by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...

text and the 'total speech act situation' surrounding it. According to Austin, in order to successfully perform an illocutionary act, certain conditions...

illocutionary act and perlocutionary act, typically cited in Speech Act Theory. Speech Act Theory is a subfield of pragmatics that explores how words and...

context, as opposed to an utterance, which is a concrete example of a speech act in a specific context. The more closely conscious subjects stick to common...

"Directive" (poem), a poem by Robert Frost Directive speech act, a particular kind of speech act which causes the hearer to take a particular action Lative...

The Hate Speech Act of 2016 is a Japanese law that regulates hate speech. It was enacted on 25 May 2016 by the National Diet. However, it does not ban...

respectively. Thus, "What time is it?" is a direct speech act that might also be expressed by the indirect speech act "Do you know what time it is?" He laid down...

ACT New Zealand (Māori: Rōpū ACT), also known as the ACT Party or simply ACT (/ˈækt/), is a right-wing, classical liberal, right-libertarian, and conservative...

appropriate to the context in which the act of reporting takes place, rather than that in which the speech act being reported took place (or is conceived...

clause realises a speech act such as a statement, a question, a command or an offer. A non-independent clause does not realise any act. A non-independent...

The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 (c. 16) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that imposes requirements for universities...

prosody as well as speech content that is "inappropriately pompous, legalistic, philosophical, or quaint". Often, such speech can act as evidence for autism...

In linguistic pragmatics, the term metalocutionary act is sometimes used for a speech act that refers to the forms and functions of the discourse itself...

certain rules for an "ideal speech situation" to occur. They are: 1. Every subject with the competence to speak and act is allowed to take part in a...

perspective. An alternative origin narrative stresses the development of speech-act theory by philosophers J. L. Austin and Judith Butler, literary critic...

which contributes to its maintenance. J. L. Austin and John Searle's speech act theory has been described by several ethnographers, anthropologists, and...

Austin when he referred to a specific capacity: the capacity of speech and communication to act or to consummate an action. Austin differentiated this from...

or a speech community.[clarification needed] Act sequence refers to the sequence of speech acts that make up a speech event. The order of speech acts...

The act may be viewed as a psychological process or journey; decision-making or risk-taking; a strategy or plan; a mass or public event; a speech act and...

Sportpalast speech Joseph Goebbels's speech in the Sportpalast in 1943. Problems playing this file? See media help. The Sportpalast speech (German: Sportpalastrede)...

Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation...

receiver, and the request at hand. These models are part of the linguistic speech act theory. Per Schulz von Thun The Factual Level contains statements which...

immigration and speech in the United States. The Naturalization Act of 1798 increased the requirements to seek citizenship, the Alien Friends Act of 1798 allowed...

consortium) KQML (Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language) Both rely on speech act theory developed by Searle in the 1960s and enhanced by Winograd and Flores...

a theory of speech acts examines the setting of standards for interpersonal relations through language. The basic goal for speech act theory is to explain...

Adolf Hitler's March 1933 Reichstag speech as Chancellor is also known as the Enabling Act speech. Due to the Reichstag chamber being unusable following...

is in favour of freedom of speech and seeks to repeal Bill C-11 (Online Streaming Act) and the successor to Bill C-36 (Act to amend the Criminal Code...