A speech act verification process, that estimates the conditional probability of a speech act given a sequence of fragments, is used to verify the speech act candidate.
A speech act coding scheme is also implemented to analyze team communications.
One way to begin to answer that is to see that terrorism is a speech act.
Having your head slowly sliced off of your body is a speech act, is it?
A speech act that is clearly understood as a call to violence.
Using "no" to refuse a sexual advance is what is known as a speech act -- a way of doing something by using words.
A declaration is again a speech act, but it was the content of the speech that brought the case within the scope of the Free Exercise Clause.
Assembled into a checklist, these factors could provide guidance to judges and juries as they assess the gravity of a speech act and its likelihood of triggering violence.
Imagining what the country would be like under the rule of your favorite celebrity was once a parlor game; today it feels like a speech act.
In this paper, a corpus-based fuzzy fragment-class Markov model (FFCMM) is proposed to model the syntactic characteristics of a speech act and used to choose the speech act candidates.
Similarly, the Court's decisions prohibiting prayer in the public schools rest on a content-based distinction between varieties of speech: as a speech act, apart from its content, a prayer is indistinguishable from a biology lesson.
