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speech act  noun Linguistics & PhilosophyAn utterance considered as an action, particularly with regard to its intention, purpose, or effect.Any speech act can be performed unconditionally, or conditionally upon something else....- Here, the narration itself is a speech act which we may call ‘confession.’
- The sense of the pledge as debt implied by both translations suggests that the vow or promise is predicated on a loss already inscribed in the speech act.
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