illocution

 

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From il- (“in”) (an assimilated version of in-) + locution (“speech”), from Latin loquor.

illocution (plural illocutions)

1. (linguistics) The aim of a speaker in making an utterance as opposed to the meaning of the terms used.
2. (Ithkuil linguistics) Type of “speech act” being made by a speaker, i.e., the purpose of the statement in terms of how the addressee is to interpret either its truth-value, or its requirements/demands upon the speaker in terms of a physical and/or psychological response.

• illocutionary
• illocute

• locution
• allocution
• perlocution