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

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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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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world-to-word [citation needed] (i.e., world-to-fit-word) used by advocates of speech act theory such as John Searle. In philosophy of mind, a belief has a mind-to-world...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

written or signed language is the way to inscribe or encode the natural human speech or gestures. Depending on philosophical perspectives regarding the definition...

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...

freedom of speech was curtailed under apartheid legislation such as the Native Administration Act 1927 and the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950. In light...

draws upon the speech act theory, which further breaks down speech acts into separate categories of sounds or utterances. Though the speech act theory is much...

early 1970s, Searle had a brief exchange with Jacques Derrida regarding speech-act theory. The exchange was characterized by a degree of mutual hostility...

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...

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...

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