illocutionary

English

Etymology

From illocution +‎ -ary.

Adjective

illocutionary (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.

   Synonym: (rare) illocutional

   "I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force.

   • 2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257:

     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.

Derived terms

• illocutionarity
• illocutionary act

Related terms

• locutionary
• perlocutionary

Translations

of, pertaining to, or derived from illocution

• Czech: ilokuční
• French: illocutoire (fr)
• German: illokutionär (de)
• Italian: illocutivo
• Korean: 언표내적 (eonpyonaejeok)
• Portuguese: ilocucionário, ilocucional, ilocutivo
• Swedish: illokut, illokutionär

Further reading

• Illocutionary act on Wikipedia.Wikipedia