English - Turkish
Definition of speech-act in English Turkish dictionary
- konuşma-eylemi
- (Sosyoloji, Toplumbilim) habermas]
- (Sosyoloji, Toplumbilim) austin
- (Sosyoloji, Toplumbilim) söz edimi [searle
- söz eylem
- söz edimi
- (Dilbilim) sözeylem
- (Dilbilim) söz edimi
- söz söyleme eylemi, söz edimi
- indirect speech act
- (Dilbilim) dolaylı sözeylem
Related Terms
English - English
Definition of speech-act in English English dictionary
- Any of illocutionary acts, locutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts
- The notion speech act is a technical term in linguistics and the philosophy of language. There are several different conceptions of what exactly "speech acts" are
- the use of language to perform some act
- speech act theory
- Theory of meaning that holds that the meaning of linguistic expressions can be explained in terms of the rules governing their use in performing various speech acts (e.g., admonishing, asserting, commanding, exclaiming, promising, questioning, requesting, warning). In contrast to theories that maintain that linguistic expressions have meaning in virtue of their contribution to the truth conditions of sentences where they occur, it explains linguistic meaning in terms of the use of words and sentences in the performance of speech acts. Some exponents claim that the meaning of a word is nothing but its contribution to the nature of the speech acts that can be performed by using it. Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin provided important stimuli for the theory's development