illocute
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from illocution.
Verb
[edit]illocute (third-person singular simple present illocutes, present participle illocuting, simple past and past participle illocuted)
- (philosophy, pragmatics, intransitive or transitive with the speech act as object) To perform an illocutionary act.
- 1981, Peter Cole, Radical pragmatics, New York: Academic Press, →OCLC, page 93:
- In some such cases, at least, there will be illocutions q such that S can illocute q and thereby (among other things) convey to A that p.
- 2012, J.F. Rosenberg, Linguistic Representation, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 11:
- Typically, one can illocute in order to perlocute, but not conversely.
- 2019, Mari Mikkola, Pornography: A Philosophical Introduction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 66:
- So, we must not conflate consent with nonrefusal: a failure to illocute refusal does not entail that one has illocuted consent to sex instead.
- 2022 January 27, Mitchell Green, Jan G. Michel, “What Might Machines Mean?”, in Minds and Machines[1], volume 32, pages 323–338:
- […] [S]ome of these refinements also help us make progress on the question whether machines can illocute.