illocutionary
illocutionary adjective: of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
Adjective
illocutionary (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
- "I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force.
- 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...2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257
- Synonyms:
- illocutional
Synonyms of illocutionary
Origin of illocutionary
From illocution + -ary.
Words formed from illocutionary
Phrases with illocutionary
Questions about illocutionary
- What does illocutionary mean?
- Illocutionary means of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
- What part of speech is illocutionary?
- Illocutionary is an adjective.
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