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illocute en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from illocution.

Meanings

1. To perform an illocutionary act.
   • So, we must not conflate consent with nonrefusal: a failure to illocute refusal does not entail that one has illocuted consent to sex instead. 2019, Mari Mikkola, Pornography: A Philosophical Introduction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 66:
   • Typically, one can illocute in order to perlocute, but not conversely. 2012, J.F. Rosenberg, Linguistic Representation, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 11:
   • […] [S]ome of these refinements also help us make progress on the question whether machines can illocute. 2022 January 27, Mitchell Green, Jan G. Michel, “What Might Machines Mean?”, in Minds and Machines, volume 32, pages 323–338:
   • 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. 1981, Peter Cole, Radical pragmatics, New York: Academic Press, →OCLC, page 93:

Forms

Relateds

locute · perlocute