Synonym(s):

• act of utterance
• enunciation₁
• utterance production
• verbal act

Antonym(s):

• utterance₁
• utterance-signal

Source(s):

SEARLE 197968
AKMAJIAN etal. 1984403
LEECH 198314 (utterance-action)
LYONS 197726 (utterance-act; also "act of uttering")
SEARLE 196924
ELL412

• SEARLE, John R. (1979) Expression & Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• AKMAJIAN, Adrian, DEMERS, Richard A., & HARNISH, Robert M. (1984) Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• LEECH, Geoffrey N. (1983) Principles of Pragmatics. Longman: London.
• LYONS, John. (1977) Semantics. Vols. 1 & 2. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
• SEARLE, John R. (1969) Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
• The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Domain:

Narrative Semiotics/Literary Semiotics (Wales)

Semantics