Illocutionary

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  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
  • Word Usage
    "Within speech acts, Austin distinguished among locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary levels, but speech act theory has been devoted almost exclusively to the illocutionary level, so that ˜speech act™ and ˜illocutionary act™ are in practice synonymous terms."