The same locution could have a different illocutionary force in different contexts.
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Illocutionary
Synonyms for "illocutionary" (2 found)
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4 entriesderived from
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10 translations across 7 languages.
Czech
1 entries- ilokuční adj (of, pertaining to, or derived from illocution)
French
1 entries- illocutoire adj (of, pertaining to, or derived from illocution)
German
1 entries- illokutionär adj (of, pertaining to, or derived from illocution)
Italian
1 entries- illocutivo adj (of, pertaining to, or derived from illocution)
Korean
1 entries- 언표내적 adj (of, pertaining to, or derived from illocution)
Portuguese
3 entries- ilocucional adj (of, pertaining to, or derived from illocution)
- ilocucionário adj (of, pertaining to, or derived from illocution)
- ilocutivo adj (of, pertaining to, or derived from illocution)
Swedish
2 entries- illokut adj (of, pertaining to, or derived from illocution)
- illokutionär adj (of, pertaining to, or derived from illocution)
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"I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force.
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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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