Illocutionary

"Illocutionary" in a Sentence (3 examples)

The same locution could have a different illocutionary force in different contexts.

"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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