Illocutionary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Illocutionary is an adjective meaning (linguistics) Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
Meaning
(linguistics) Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
Example Sentences
"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.
Synonyms for illocutionary
Depending on context, synonyms include illocutional.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include illocutive, locutionary, perlocutionary, locutive, interlocutive, interlocutional.
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