Speech Act

Word SPEECH ACT
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Cases in which, sometimes in the very same sentence, one and the same stroke, the speaker does precisely what he's accusing his opponent of... in & by the very speech-act of accusation itself. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

The neustic indicates what speech-act is being performed with the phrastic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the face, and thanks to our very strong free speech traditions, we have not had to deal with the types of pure speech-act tribunals plaguing Canada and some European nations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By analyzing the structure of communication (using speech-act theory developed in analytic philosophy) he lays out a procedure that will rationally justify norms, though he does not claim to know what norms a society will adopt by using this procedure. ❋ Hare, John (2006)

In this section, I indicate how assertion, as the fundamental speech-act of testimony, provides insights into a number of epistemological issues. ❋ Adler, Jonathan (2006)

The speech-act of testimony is a speaker's sincerely saying, uttering, telling, or asserting something to some audience (Searle 1969). ❋ Adler, Jonathan (2006)

But this appearance itself owes something to the association of knowledge with certainty, an association broken by, for one, the U-W thesis that the common speech-act of assertion requires backing by knowledge. ❋ Adler, Jonathan (2006)

Of course, the student does engage in a speech-act that appears to be an assertion. ❋ Adler, Jonathan (2006)

A few years later, however, he embraced a speech-act theory based on the work of William Alston, and used it to defend the intentional fallacy in his final paper on the topic. ❋ Wreen, Michael (2005)

That is to say, the aesthetic object was also a symbolic speech-act that transgressed the contemporary norms current on the London stage. ❋ Unknown (1999)

The result is a "Tower-of-Babel mixing of languages" that interposes itself between the speaker and the object to be expressed. 18 Bakhtin insists, as do current exponents of speech-act theory and sociolinguistics, that the context of a word contributes indispensably to its meaning. ❋ Unknown (1987)

It begins with, rather than questioning, the 1870 declaration of papal infallibility and then offers an elaborate formal speech-act theory to justify it. ❋ Fitzgerald, M.J. (1980)

While we can certainly evoke texts and speech-acts in terms of their truth, the referential truth of a text or speech-act is an issue that is independent of the difference that a text or speech-act as a material event makes on other objects in the world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That is, given the sentence "I had eggs for breakfast this morning", I can imagine a person claiming that he had eggs for breakfast this morning, and how as an aspect of that claim (of that speech-act) he is pronouncing the given sentence. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If this is so - it points to the answer of how are we able to understand a sentence, even in its abstract form, separated from any speech-act. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But again, there is no reason to speak of the truth value of the sentence alone, if we can't make sense of it being right or wrong separated from the speech-act of claiming. ❋ Unknown (2008)

See The Drama of Doctrine by Kevin J. Vanhoozer (WJK, 2005) on the value of speech-act theory for theological reflection. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One might think that the central issue here would be to decide between the speech-act view (1) and the mental acts views (2) and (3); it might be thought to be less important, an issue of intramural interest only, to decide between (2) and (3). ❋ Murphy, Mark (2008)

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