Speech act

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Speech act is a technical term in linguistics . It comes from pragmatics , the branch of linguistics that deals with linguistic action.

If one disregards an unfamiliar connotation in Karl Bühler , speech act is originally a Germanization of the English expression speech act by John Searle .

The term speech act is either used synonymously or denotes, in a terminologically critical distance from the term speech act, specifically a unit of action, while the terms act or act, terminologically misleading, only mean dimensions, aspects of a linguistic act.

In a broader sense, the expression speech act should be used generally for "the speech event under certain situational conditions" or as "linguistic utterance as a social act in a given situational context".

In its specific use, the term speech act is a technical term in speech act theory and denotes there

  • in the broader sense, a linguistic act consisting of “an act of expression, a propositional, illocutionary and perlocutionary act”, or
  • in a narrower sense only the illocutionary act .

Speaking act at Bühler

According to Bühler's second axiom of his Axiomatik der Sprachwissenschaft (around 1933), language consists of linguistic actions and linguistic structures / products. Divided further in his four-field scheme, he sees 4 parts: speech act, speech act, language structure, language work. So speaking act is one of the parts.

Web links

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Wiktionary: Speech act  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glück, Helmut (ed.): Metzler Lexikon Sprach. 4th edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2010: Speech act.
  2. ↑ Cf. Glück, Helmut (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 4th edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2010: Speech act.
  3. ↑ Volmert: Language and Spoken: Basic Terms and Linguistic Concepts. In: Volmert (Hrsg.): Grundkurs Sprachwissenschaft. 5th edition (2005), p. 15.
  4. ↑ Ulrich: Basic Linguistic Concepts. 5th edition (2002) / speech act.
  5. ^ Meibauer: Introduction to German linguistics. 2nd edition (2007), p. 356.
  6. ↑ "In the context of Bühler's four-field scheme (the third [sic second!] Of his four axioms of linguistics; [...]) [...] term used for" subject-related "language phenomena" [Lexicon Language: Speech Act. Metzler Lexikon Sprache, p. 9188 (cf. MLSpr, p. 678) (c) JB Metzler Verlag]
  7. ↑ Bühler: Theory of Language.