illocutionary

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Etymology

From illocution +‎ -ary.

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illocutionary (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
    Synonym: (rare) illocutional
    "I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force.
    • 2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257:
      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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