Speech Acts

http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/speech_act.htm

Speech Act Theory

http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/speechact.html

Towards a History of Speech Act Theory

http://www.carla.umn.edu/speechacts/definition.html

CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition)

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsASpeechAct.htm

What is a speech act?

• illocutionary
• perlocutionary 
• propositional
• utterance

SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics)

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/speech-acts/

Work at Stanford

http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~kbach/spchacts.html

Levels of speech acts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_act

Wiki on Speech act