Usually means: Communication performing action through words.
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  1. speech act: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. speech act: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. speech act: Collins English Dictionary
  4. speech act: Vocabulary.com
  5. speech act: Wiktionary
  6. speech act: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. speech act: Dictionary.com
  8. SPEECH Act, Speech-act, Speech act: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. speech act: Rhymezone
  10. speech act: FreeDictionary.org
  11. speech act: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. speech act: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. Speech act: Lexicon of Linguistics

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  1. speech act: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (speech act)

▸ noun:  (linguistics) An act carried out by speech, such as promising, ordering, greeting, warning, inviting and congratulating.

Similar:
speeching, exercitive, commissive, actio, appealer, acting, word, utterance, speechmaking, address, more...

Opposite:
silence, quiet, gesture, action

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Similar:
speeching, exercitive, commissive, actio, appealer, acting, word, utterance, speechmaking, address, more...

Opposite:
silence, quiet, gesture, action



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