Meaning of illocutionary | Babel Free

Definitions

Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.

not-comparable

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Examples

“"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 years ago.”

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