The phrase "acts of speech" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to specific instances or types of verbal communication or expressions.
Example: "The professor analyzed various acts of speech in literature to understand character motivations."
Alternatives: "speech acts" or "verbal expressions".
Scientific experiments are always deeds and not merely acts of speech.
Now students worry whether acts of speech or pieces of writing may put them in emotional peril.
The Dialogus' character of Vipstanus Messalla not only acts as a bridge from Tacitus' Histories to the Dialogus, but, more importantly, by his kinship with one of the most infamous delatores (imperial prosecutorial informants), Messalla acts as a bridge between the Dialogus and the Annales; both works share an atmosphere of menace and fear attendant upon acts of speech.
Because language in its fullest sense occurs only in the societal context in its acts of speech production and in what is being said through them, its true nature can only be intimated and perceived in living discourse (verbundener Rede) and should be studied equally in its lasting manifestations in the works of culture and of science, in literature, poetry, and philosophy.
Acts of speech hold power.
Other humans, too, are similes and other acts of speech.
Sometimes I would overhear myself in the act of speech, like a man who suddenly sees himself in a mirror.
Despite their shared origins in the mouth, the act of speech and the act of eating do not have much in common.
His voice was a child's squeak, and it occurred to Louis that there was real bravery in the act of speech.
From a user's point of view, every share, like or comment is both an act of speech and an accretive piece of a public identity.
Here he is describing the act of speech: When you stop to examine the way in which words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard put to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.
