The term "performing a speech" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this term when describing a person who is delivering a speech in front of an audience. For example: "The politician was well-received after performing a speech on the economy."
Further, since it is merely a type of sentence, one can utter a performative without performing a speech act.
Public speaking, or the act of performing a speech in front of a live audience, is an integral part of scientific communication.
Typically, the speaker who makes an assertion has addressee-directed intentions in performing a speech act.
A performative sentence is in the first person, present tense, indicative mood, active voice, that describes its speaker as performing a speech act.
Even in such a case she performs Sn only by virtue of intentionally performing some other set of speech acts S1, …, Sn−1; it is difficult to see how one can perform Sn while having no intention of performing a speech act at all.
As we have seen, one can perform a speech act without uttering a performative.
He told me he performed a speech from Shakespeare's Henry V for a group of people who included Sir Alec Guinness.
His first experience with traditional theater came when he performed a speech from Pinter's play "The Caretaker" to win admission to the National Youth Theater, which eventually led him to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
That depends on whether I can perform a speech act without intending to do so a topic for Section 9 below.
Suchet performed a speech from Amadeus, which Sir Peter directed at the National Theatre before it became an Oscar-winning film, while Redgrave gave a reading from the Bible's Corinthians.
Just as one can, under appropriate conditions, perform a speech act by speaker meaning that one is doing so, so too one can, under the right conditions, retract that very speech act.
