speech act

Noun speech act has 1 sense

• speech act(n = noun.communication) - the use of language to perform some act;
is a kind of act, deed, human action, human activity
has particulars: congratulation, felicitation, slander, proposal, proposition, bid, bidding, command, dictation, agreement, citation, disagreement, offer, offering, asking, request, reply, response, description, affirmation, assertion, statement, denial, rejection, objection, informing, making known, disclosure, revealing, revelation, promise, boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise, naming, challenge, explanation, denouncement, denunciation, address, speech, resignation