illocutionn.
/ɪləʊˈkjuːʃən/ Philosophy.
An act such as ordering, warning, undertaking, performed in saying something.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > [noun] > a speech act or fact of being a speech act
descriptive1952
illocution1955
locution1955
performative1955
performatory1955
perlocution1955
performativeness1960
performativity1970
1955 J. L. Austin MS Lect. Notes: How to do Things with Words (Bodl. Eng. Misc. c. 395) f. 20 Act (B) or Illocution: He urged (or advised, ordered etc) me to shoot her.
1955 J. L. Austin MS Lect. Notes: How to do Things with Words (Bodl. Eng. Misc. c. 395) f. 26 It is the distinction between illocutions and perlocutions which seems likeliest to give trouble.
Derivatives
illoˈcutionary adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > [adjective]
locutory1735
locutionary1880
illocutionary1955
1955 J. L. Austin MS Lect. Notes: How to do Things with Words (Bodl. Eng. Misc. c. 394) f. 14 To perform a locutionary act is in general..also and eo ipso to perform an illocutionary act, as I propose to call it.
1955 J. L. Austin MS Lect. Notes: How to do Things with Words (Bodl. Eng. Misc. c. 395) f. 15 I shall refer to the doctrine of the different types of function of language..as the doctrine of ‘illocutionary forces’.
1955 J. L. Austin MS Lect. Notes: How to do Things with Words (Bodl. Eng. Misc. c. 395) f. 30 We must avoid the idea..that the illocutionary act is a consequence of the locutionary act.
1963 M. Furberg (title) Locutionary and illocutionary acts.
1964 Philos. Rev. 73 58 Describing and evaluating..are only two among hundreds of kinds of illocutionary force.
1972 J. Rawls Theory of Justice §62. 406 Nor do I oppose the view that a certain illocutionary force is central to ‘good’.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Oct. 1161/5 The illocutionary act was the act performed by a speaker in saying something, such as the act of asking or answering a question.
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