exercitive

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English

Adjective

exercitive (comparative more exercitive, superlative most exercitive)

  1. (pragmatics) Having the character of an exercitive act.

Noun

exercitive (plural exercitives)

  1. (pragmatics, hermeneutics) A speech act in which a decision is made regarding action; examples include orders and grants of permission.
    • 1962, J.L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words (paperback), Oxford, published 1965, page 154:
      An exercitive is the giving of a decision in favour of or against a certain course of action, or advocacy of it.
    • 1999, Jeffrey A. Mason, The Philosopher's Address: Writing and the Perception of Philosophy‎, →ISBN, page 51:
      Exercitives are not so common. Philosopher-authors are rarely in the position to tell people what to do or think.
    • 2003, Mary Kathryn McGowan, “Conversational Exercitives and the Force of Pornography”, in Philosophy & Public Affairs‎, volume 31, number 2, pages 155–189:
      The hearer's recognition of the speaker's locutionary intention is also an important felicity condition of Austinian exercitives.

Coordinate terms

Other classical types of illocutionary acts

References

  • Cheng Xinghua Applied Linguistics Foreign Language Press Beijing:2008
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