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  2. Speech act - Wikipedia

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    For example, a death threat is a type of speech act and is considered to exist outside of the protection of freedom of speech as it is treated as a criminal act. In economic sociology [ edit ]

  3. Illocutionary act - Wikipedia

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    commissives = speech acts that commit a speaker to some future action, e.g. promises and oaths; expressives = speech acts that express on the speaker's attitudes and emotions towards the proposition, e.g. congratulations, excuses and thanks; declarations = speech acts that change the reality in accord with the proposition of the declaration, e ...

  4. Performative utterance - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of language and speech acts theory, performative utterances are sentences which not only describe a given reality, but also change the social reality they are describing. In a 1955 lecture series, later published as How to Do Things with Words , J. L. Austin argued against a positivist philosophical claim that the utterances ...

  5. Locutionary act - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics and the philosophy of language, a locutionary act is the performance of an utterance, and is one of the types of force, in addition to illocutionary act and perlocutionary act, typically cited in Speech Act Theory. [1] Speech Act Theory is a subfield of pragmatics that explores how words and sentences are not only used to present ...

  6. Perlocutionary act - Wikipedia

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    Examples of perlocutionary acts include persuading, convincing, scaring, enlightening, inspiring, or otherwise affecting the interlocutor. The perlocutionary effect of an utterance is contrasted with the locutionary act , which is the act of producing the utterance, and with the illocutionary force , which does not depend on the utterance's ...

  7. Performativity - Wikipedia

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    Performative acts are types of authoritative speech. This can only happen and be enforced through the law or norms of the society. These statements, just by speaking them, carry out a certain action and exhibit a certain level of power. Examples of these types of statements are declarations of ownership, baptisms, inaugurations, and legal ...

  8. Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech: Full text - AOL

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    Read the full text of the speech as he delivered it that day: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

  9. Felicity (pragmatics) - Wikipedia

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    Propositional content condition: the requested act is a future act of the hearer; Preparatory precondition: 1) the speaker believes the hearer can perform the requested act; 2) it is not obvious that the hearer would perform the requested act without being asked; Sincerity condition: the speaker genuinely wants the hearer to perform the ...