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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

speech act en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. An act carried out by speech, such as promising, ordering, greeting, warning, inviting and congratulating.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
speech acts Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

locutionary act · illocutionary act · perlocutionary act

Deriveds

speech act participant

Hyponyms

utterance · act

Translations (20)

de sprachliche Handlung (act carried out by speech) · de Sprechakt (act carried out by speech) · da talehandling (act carried out by speech) · es acto de habla (act carried out by speech) · sv talhandling (act carried out by speech) · nl taalhandeling (act carried out by speech) · de Sprachhandlung (act carried out by speech) · pl akt mowy (act carried out by speech) · de Sprechhandlung (act carried out by speech) · ca acte de parla (act carried out by speech) · sv talakt (act carried out by speech) · fi puhetoimitus (act carried out by speech) · nl taaldaad (act carried out by speech) · hu beszédaktus (act carried out by speech) · fr acte de langage (act carried out by speech) · el γλωσσική πράξη (act carried out by speech) · ga gníomh cainte (act carried out by speech) · it atto linguistico (act carried out by speech) · uk мовленнє́вий акт (act carried out by speech) · pt ato de falo (act carried out by speech)