For the technical term (in linguistics) for an instance of 'saying' something, see speech act.
Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act
Long title
An Act to amend title 28, United States Code, to prohibit recognition and enforcement of foreign defamation judgments and certain foreign judgments against the providers of interactive computer services
Nicknames
SPEECH Act
Enacted by
the 111th United States Congress
Effective
August 10, 2010
Citations
Public law
Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 111–223 (text) (PDF)
Statutes at Large
124 Stat. 2380–2384
Codification
U.S.C. sections created
28 U.S.C. §§ 4101–4105
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 2765 by Steve Cohen (D–TN) on June 9, 2009
Committee consideration by House Judiciary, Senate Judiciary
Passed the House on June 15, 2009 (voice vote)
Passed the Senate on July 19, 2010 (unanimous consent) with amendment
House agreed to Senate amendment on July 27, 2010 (voice vote)
Signed into law by President Barack Obama on August 10, 2010
The Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage (SPEECH) Act is a 2010 federal statutory law in the United States that makes foreign libel judgments unenforceable in U.S. courts, unless either the foreign legislation applied offers at least as much protection as the U.S. First Amendment (concerning freedom of speech), or the defendant would have been found liable even if the case had been heard under U.S. law.
The act was passed by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama.
In the philosophy of language and linguistics, speechact is something expressed by an individual that not only presents information but performs an action...
Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage (SPEECH) Act is a 2010 federal statutory law in the United States that makes foreign...
by Bach and Harnish in 'Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts' (1979), an illocutionary act is an attempt to communicate, which they analyse as the...
text and the 'total speechact situation' surrounding it. According to Austin, in order to successfully perform an illocutionary act, certain conditions...
context, as opposed to an utterance, which is a concrete example of a speechact in a specific context. The more closely conscious subjects stick to common...
In the United States, freedom of speech and expression is strongly protected from government restrictions by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
illocutionary act and perlocutionary act, typically cited in SpeechAct Theory. SpeechAct Theory is a subfield of pragmatics that explores how words and...
appropriate to the context in which the act of reporting takes place, rather than that in which the speechact being reported took place (or is conceived...
respectively. Thus, "What time is it?" is a direct speechact that might also be expressed by the indirect speechact "Do you know what time it is?" He laid down...
concerning their age, social status, gender, degree of intimacy, and speechact situation. One basic rule of Korean honorifics is 'making oneself lower';...
prosody as well as speech content that is "inappropriately pompous, legalistic, philosophical, or quaint". Often, such speech can act as evidence for autism...
which contributes to its maintenance. J. L. Austin and John Searle's speechact theory has been described by several ethnographers, anthropologists, and...
world-to-word [citation needed] (i.e., world-to-fit-word) used by advocates of speechact theory such as John Searle. In philosophy of mind, a belief has a mind-to-world...
In linguistic pragmatics, the term metalocutionary act is sometimes used for a speechact that refers to the forms and functions of the discourse itself...
"Directive" (poem), a poem by Robert Frost Directive speechact, a particular kind of speechact which causes the hearer to take a particular action Lative...
Austin when he referred to a specific capacity: the capacity of speech and communication to act or to consummate an action. Austin differentiated this from...
perspective. An alternative origin narrative stresses the development of speech-act theory by philosophers J. L. Austin and Judith Butler, literary critic...
The act may be viewed as a psychological process or journey; decision-making or risk-taking; a strategy or plan; a mass or public event; a speechact and...
certain rules for an "ideal speech situation" to occur. They are: 1. Every subject with the competence to speak and act is allowed to take part in a...
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation...
draws upon the speechact theory, which further breaks down speech acts into separate categories of sounds or utterances. Though the speechact theory is much...
Sportpalast speech Joseph Goebbels's speech in the Sportpalast in 1943. Problems playing this file? See media help. The Sportpalast speech (German: Sportpalastrede)...
written or signed language is the way to inscribe or encode the natural human speech or gestures. Depending on philosophical perspectives regarding the definition...
Public speaking, also called oratory, is the act or skill of delivering speeches on a subject before a live audience. Public speaking has played an important...
or a speech community.[clarification needed] Act sequence refers to the sequence of speech acts that make up a speech event. The order of speech acts...
a formal act by which one state announces existing or impending war activity against another. The declaration is a performative speechact (or the public...
The SIM Registration Act, officially designated as Republic Act No. 11934 and commonly referred to as the SIM card law, is a Philippine law mandating the...
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