illocute
verbEtymology
Back-formation from illocution.
Definitions
To perform an illocutionary act.
- 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.
- Typically, one can illocute in order to perlocute, but not conversely.
- So, we must not conflate consent with nonrefusal: a failure to illocute refusal does not entail that one has illocuted consent to sex instead.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for illocute. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA