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The Speech Act as an Act of Knowing

Received: 21 January 2015     Accepted: 22 January 2015     Published: 14 February 2015
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Abstract

Language is nothing but human subjects in as much as they speak, say and know. Language is something coming from the inside of the speaking subject manifest in the meaningful intentional purpose of the individual speaker. A language, on the contrary, is something coming from the outside, from the speech community, something offered to the speaking subject from the tradition in the technique of speaking. The speech act is nothing by the development of an intuition by the subject transforming it in words of a language. It is both individual and social. Since human subjects are free and historical, the study of speech acts is hermeneutics, that is, interpreting speech acts with knowing and the human reality.

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 6-1)

This article belongs to the Special Issue Linguistics of Saying

DOI 10.11648/j.ijll.s.2015030601.15
Page(s) 31-38
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Keywords

Speech Act, Act of Knowing, the Human Subject, Speaking, Saying and Knowing, the Human Reality, Hermeneutics

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  • Department of Philology, Faculty of Business Studies and Tourism, Universidad de Almeria, Almeria, Spain

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