speech acts in English

noun
1
an utterance considered as an action, particularly with regard to its intention, purpose, or effect.
Any speech act can be performed unconditionally, or conditionally upon something else.

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1. Constatives should not be subsumed under the class of speech acts

2. By making their status as speech acts clear, these statements are both more direct and more impolite.

3. Cox, has chimed in with a really vicious unpacking of Alterman's speech acts, revisions, and various Blusterings.

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5. 4 In Genesis we find a variety of dramatis personae and a coherent system of communicative models that are represented by its speech acts performed.

6. Similarly, and fourthly, the observation that Constatives often express beliefs generalises to the observation that speech acts quite generally license the inference that their sincerity conditions are fulfilled (to borrow Searle’s 1969 terminology)