Example sentences for speech act
Consistent with speech act theory, participants recognized the speech acts that speakers performed with their utterances.
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The general nature of the speech act
fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling... more
The assertion fallacy ... is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act
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