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- noun Plural form of
illocution .
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Examples
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Perlocutions are characteristic aims of one or more illocution, but are not themselves illocutions.
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Degree of strength of the illocutionary point: Two illocutions can have the same point but differ along the dimension of strength.
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Propositional content conditions: Some illocutions can only be achieved with an appropriate propositional content.
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An appropriate definition of illocutions would enable us to explain, rather than merely describe, some features of speech acts.
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The single most important question it must answer is this: Given that a speaker in a certain context of utterance performs a successful illocutionary act of a certain form, what other illocutions does the performance of that act commit him to?
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In it Austin defines two sorts of speech acts, or ˜performatives™: illocutions and perlocutions.
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