| 单词 | speech act verb |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspeech act verb speech act verb n. Linguistics a verb expressing a speech act; a verb that conveys the speaker's purpose in making a given utterance. ΚΠ 1962 Philos. Rev. 71 430 I wish to distinguish two classes of speech-act verbs. 1978 Linguistics & Philos. 2 116 If we turn our attention from propositional attitude verbs, like ‘doubts’ and ‘believes’, to speech-act verbs, like ‘denies’ and ‘says’. 2010 E. Weigand Dialogue iii. iii. 155 Declarative speech acts need a speech act verb in combination with a certain syntactic-grammatical pattern. < as lemmas |
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