ABSTRACT
In J.R.Searle’s speech act theory, a part of the performance of a speech act: the utterance of morphemes, words, sentences. An utterance act for Searle corresponds to Austin’s phonetic act and phatic act. ( also locution)
References
Austin, J.L. 1962. How to do things with words. Oxford. Searle, J.R. 1969. Speech acts: an essay in the philosophy of language. Cambridge.
