Illocute

Quick meaning: Illocute is a verb meaning (philosophy, pragmatics, intransitive or transitive with the speech act as object) To perform an illocutionary act.

Meaning

(philosophy, pragmatics, intransitive or transitive with the speech act as object) To perform an illocutionary act.

Example Sentences

Typically, one can illocute in order to perlocute, but not conversely.

[…] [S]ome of these refinements also help us make progress on the question whether machines can illocute.

In some such cases, at least, there will be illocutions q such that S can illocute q and thereby (among other things) convey to A that p.

So, we must not conflate consent with nonrefusal: a failure to illocute refusal does not entail that one has illocuted consent to sex instead.

Word Forms

• illocutes
• illocuting
• illocuted

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