speech act

Noun

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

Hyponyms

 * utterance, act

Coordinate terms

 * illocutionary act, locutionary act, perlocutionary act

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Danish: talehandling
 * Dutch:, taaldaad
 * Finnish: puhetoimitus
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: γλωσσική πράξη
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: atto linguistico
 * Polish: akt mowy
 * Portuguese: ato de falo
 * Spanish: acto de habla
 * Swedish: talhandling, talakt