Talk:Speech act

Misfire

It seems strange that this article does not currently mention the concept of a misfire, considering how fundamental this was to the development of this topic in How To Do Things With Words. Andrewa (talk) 11:13, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Fixed Thiagovscoelho (talk) 00:01, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Finding more Info and Rearranging

As a linguistic undergrad student, even I found this article a bit hard to follow. I think moving the definitions of the three cases of speech acts should be moved to the intro and then each should have it's own paragraph. Also maybe some background information is needed for non-linguistic people. For example, they might not know the word semantics or pragmatics. Overall, the article is really informative but just needs some polishing. Arkoeneke (talk) 06:06, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Fixed Thiagovscoelho (talk) 00:02, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

There is a quick reference to locutionary and perlocutionary speech acts, but does not go into detail. It does go into detail about illocutionary speech acts, which makes the article unbalanced. Ericaldagar (talk) 18:45, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Fixed Thiagovscoelho (talk) 00:02, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

I feel there should be some mention of Austin's felicity conditions which would include misfire.Hammed.MP (talk) 22:00, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Fixed Thiagovscoelho (talk) 00:02, 23 November 2025 (UTC)