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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(linguistics) Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking..
"I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force.
Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.
Use illocutionary when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Illocutionary means (linguistics) Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking..
Common synonyms include illocutional.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force.
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