Usually means: Expression of intent in speech.
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  5. illocution: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (illocution)

noun:  (linguistics) The aim of a speaker in making an utterance as opposed to the meaning of the terms used.
noun:  (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.

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