Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesOf, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
"I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force.
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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.
2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257Synonyms: illocutional
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
Origin
Translations
Czech ilokuční
- ilokučníof, pertaining to, or derived from illocution
French illocutoire
- illocutoireof, pertaining to, or derived from illocution
German illokutionär
- illokutionärof, pertaining to, or derived from illocution
Italian illocutivo
- illocutivoof, pertaining to, or derived from illocution
Korean 언표내적
- 언표내적 (eonpyonaejeok)of, pertaining to, or derived from illocution
Portuguese ilocucionário, ilocucional
- ilocucionárioof, pertaining to, or derived from illocution
- ilocucionalof, pertaining to, or derived from illocution
- ilocutivoof, pertaining to, or derived from illocution
Swedish illokut, illokutionär
- illokutof, pertaining to, or derived from illocution
- illokutionärof, pertaining to, or derived from illocution
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illocutionary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illocutionary
“illocutionary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illocutionary. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “illocutionary,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illocutionary.
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