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Proposal for Speech Act article:

I think that this article is off to a good start as a quality source of information. It offers some insight on what speech acts are and how the concept was developed. However, I think some improvements are definitely necessary for this article. In the "History" section of this article, a lot of good information is given about early developments in the study of speech acts. I would like to include more recent discoveries being made about speech acts and how people use and interpret them. I would also like to expand the "Uses In Political Science" section since I feel that section would be relevant to this course if more information was included. I learned about speech acts in my pragmatics course and I found them very interesting so I hope I can make some valuable contributions to this article.

The study of Speech Acts is prevalent in legal theory since laws themselves can be interpreted as speech acts. Laws issue out a command to their constituents which can be realized as an action. When forming a legal contract, speech acts can be made when people are making or accepting an offer. Considering the theory of freedom of speech, some speech acts may not be legally protected. For example, a death threat is a type of speech act and is considered to exist outside of the protection of freedom of speech as it is treated as a criminal act. ~

http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2012/03/legal-theory-lexicon-speech-acts.html