Propositional Act
Definition:
A propositional act is a speech act that a speaker performs when referring or predicating in an utterance.
Examples:
(English)
The following utterances all have the same propositional act despite their different illocutionary acts, utterance acts, and perlocutionary acts:
- You go home.
- Do you go home?
- Go home!
- How I wish you’d go home!
Source:
23–24
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.