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The 38 pages that link to Speech act, each with the reason it gives.

• PragmaticsRelated: It connects utterance meaning to what speakers do by speaking.

• Interpersonal communicationRelated: Messages do things between people, not merely convey propositions.

• Speech balloonRelated: A balloon presents an utterance as a character’s communicative act within a scene.

• InterpretationRelated: Interpreting an utterance often means identifying what action it performs.

• ProverbRelated: Using a proverb can perform advice or criticism without stating it directly.

• Philosophy of languageRelated: Utterances can do things as well as express meanings or describe facts.

• Genre theoryRelated: Genre conventions help make recurring communicative acts recognizable and effective.

• Grammatical moodRelated: Mood can support a speech act, though grammatical form and communicative function do not always match.

• Linguistic anthropologyRelated: Shows how speaking can change social relations rather than merely describe them.

• Ethnography of communicationRelated: Local conventions shape which actions an utterance performs and how it is understood.

• ImplicatureRelated: An utterance can perform an indirect speech act as well as convey an implicature.

• Dell HymesRelated: Speech acts illustrate how utterances do things within culturally patterned situations.

• Intercultural communicationRelated: Cultures can differ in how directly or appropriately such actions are performed.

• Person (grammar)Related: The speaker and addressee that define person are participants in a speech act.

• Quentin SkinnerRelated: Skinner draws on speech-act theory to ask what an author did in writing a text.

• Meta-communicationRelated: Intentional force is part of what a communicative act conveys beyond its wording.

• Obscene gestureRelated: An obscene gesture can perform an insult without using words.