The Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage (SPEECH) Act is a federal statutory law in the United States that makes foreign libel judgments unenforceable in U.S. courts, unless either the legislation applied offers at least as much protection as the U.S. First Amendment (concerning free speech), or the defen...
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A speech act in linguistics and the philosophy of language is an utterance that has performative function in language and communication. According to Kent Bach, `almost any speech act is really the performance of several acts at once, distinguished by different aspects of the speaker`s intention: there is the act of saying something, what one do.....
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a declarative sentence can be used to perform a number of different speech acts . In uttering It's cold in here a speaker may perform an act of requesting the hearer to close the window or turn up the heating.
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n] - the use of language to perform some act
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noun the use of language to perform some act
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The act of speaking with another individual. This has become a discipline in its own right since the pioneering work of Austin in the early 1960's. It was put on a firm linguistic footing by Searle at the end of the decade and has since become part of the standard repertoire of all linguists.
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