illocutionary

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22
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13

Definition of illocutionary

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)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.”

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Etymology

From illocution + -ary.

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