Usually means: Expressing intent in spoken acts.
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  1. illocutionary: Merriam-Webster
  2. illocutionary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. illocutionary: Collins English Dictionary
  4. illocutionary: Wordnik
  5. illocutionary: Wiktionary
  6. illocutionary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. illocutionary: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. illocutionary: Dictionary.com
  9. Illocutionary: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Illocutionary: Neuage Online Discourse Analysis Theory

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▸ adjective:  (linguistics) Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.

Similar:
illocutive, locutionary, perlocutionary, locutive, interlocutive, interlocutional, idioglottic, lingual, elocutive, elocutory, more...

Opposite:
locutionary

Types:
act: assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, more...

Phrases:
illocutionary force, Illocutionary act, more...

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Similar:
illocutive, locutionary, perlocutionary, locutive, interlocutive, interlocutional, idioglottic, lingual, elocutive, elocutory, more...

Opposite:
locutionary

Types:
act: assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, more...

Phrases:
illocutionary force, Illocutionary act, more...



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