adjective
Philosophy LinguisticsSee illocution
‘Austin distinguishes among three components in a total speech act: the locutionary act, the illocutionary act, and the perlocutionary act.’
- ‘In this article we analyze the grammar of codes of ethics as a written locutionary act, and attempt to determine their implicit illocutionary and perlocutionary values.’
- ‘The illocutionary act is what is directly achieved by the conventional force associated with the issuance of a certain kind of utterance in accord with a conventional procedure.’
- ‘I guess the meaning is the illocutionary force of interrogativeness with no propositional content.’
- ‘Just as all speech acts are unities of an illocutionary force and a propositional content, so all intentional states are unities of a psychological mode and an intentional content.’
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