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

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...

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...

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

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...