illocutionary act

noun

Definitions

  1. The communicative action performed by a speaker when making an utterance, where the…

    The communicative action performed by a speaker when making an utterance, where the speaker's intention behind the utterance is crucial to its meaning.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for illocutionary act. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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