speech act

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   the use of language to perform some act

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Questions about speech act

What does speech act mean?

speech act means "the use of language to perform some act".

Is speech act a common word?

speech act is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.