speech act vs disclosure

disclosure vs speech act

speech act and disclosure both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
speech act	Yes	No	No	No
disclosure	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, disclosure is a hyponym of speech act; that is, disclosure is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than speech act:

speech act: the use of language to perform some act
disclosure: the speech act of making something evident

Other hyponyms of speech act include congratulation, felicitation, slander, proposal, proposition, bid, bidding, command, dictation, agreement, citation, disagreement, offer, offering, asking, request, reply, response, description, affirmation, assertion, statement, denial, rejection, objection, informing, making known, revealing, revelation, promise, boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise, naming, challenge, explanation, denouncement, denunciation, address, speech, resignation.

speech act (noun)	disclosure (noun)
the use of language to perform some act	the speech act of making something evident

Difference between speech act and disclosure

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