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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. speech acts: Collins English Dictionary
  2. speech acts: Vocabulary.com
  3. speech acts: Wiktionary
  4. speech acts: Dictionary.com
  5. Speech acts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Speech acts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speech acts: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speech acts: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See speech_act as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (speech act)

noun:  (linguistics) An act carried out by speech, such as promising, ordering, greeting, warning, inviting and congratulating.
▸ Also see speech_act


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