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In the philosophy of language and linguistics, a speech act is something expressed by an individual that not only presents information but performs an action as well.[1] For example, the phrase "I would like the mashed potatoes; could you please pass them to me?" is considered a speech act as it expresses the speaker's desire to acquire the mashed potatoes, as well as presenting a request that someone pass the potatoes to them.
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 does in saying it, such as requesting or promising, and how one is trying to affect one's audience".[2]
The contemporary use of the term "speech act" goes back to J. L. Austin's development of performative utterances and his theory of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts. Speech acts serve their function once they are said or communicated. These are commonly taken to include acts such as apologizing, promising, ordering, answering, requesting, complaining, warning, inviting, refusing, and congratulating.[3]
- ^ Austin, J. L. (1975). Urmson, J. O.; Sbisà, Marina. (eds.). How to do things with words (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674411524. OCLC 1811317.
- ^ Ingber, Warren; Bach, Kent; Harnish, Robert M. (January 1982). "Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts". The Philosophical Review. 91 (1): 134. doi:10.2307/2184680. JSTOR 2184680.
- ^ "The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA): Pragmatics and Speech Acts". carla.umn.edu. Retrieved 20 February 2019.