SPEECH ACT

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Charles François (2004). SPEECH ACT. International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 3133.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(2)
ID	◀ 3133 ▶
Object type	General information, Human sciences

Any utterance that can be considered as an action.

Examples are: “I warn you” - “I promise you”, or if you are a priest: “I marry you”. This concept was developed by J. AUSTIN (1962).

Its systemic interest lies in the common tacit knowledge by the concerned participants of the relevant “class of communicative actions ”.