illocute

present singular third person illocutes · participle present illocuting · participle past illocuted · past illocuted

1. human sciencesTo perform an illocutionary act.

   Typically, one can illocute in order to perlocute, but not conversely.

   2012, J.F. Rosenberg, Linguistic Representation, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 11

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   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

   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

   […] [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