Definition
A propositional act is a speech act that a speaker performs when referring or predicating in an utterance.
Examples
(English)
The following utterances all have the same propositional act despite their different illocutionary acts, utterance acts, and perlocutionary acts:
- You go home.
- Do you go home?
- Go home!
- How I wish you’d go home!
Sources 1
- Searle 1969, 23–24