illocutionary

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• However, although Austin focuses on the illocutionary force, he also calls attention to the visceral effects of all utterances, whether locutionary or perlocutionary.

  Academic text (2017)

• Another way of explaining this is to say that all utterances in a message with their own illocutionary force and reference to a state of affairs are discourse units.

  Academic text (2002)

• The illocutionary view: character as narrative instance.

  Academic text (1992)

• To reclaim their identity, there is no way around renaming themselves, despite their efforts to bypass the illocutionary force of language.

  Academic text (2017)

• Thus, it is unreasonable to conclude that illocutionary indicators are procedural while illocutionary adverbials are conceptual.

  Academic text (2006)

• However, whether an illocutionary or perlocutionary act, the virtuous wife's death is a physical action set into motion by words, and it instills a longing for justice in the reader, convincing us that the verbal command enacts the very deed it encourages.

  Academic text (2017)

• When it comes to the illocutionary profile of the novel as a whole, however, I would contend that those instances of textual 'you' that I am calling doubly deictic (section 4.5) function not as informatives, but precisely as anti-informatives.

  Academic text (1994)

• In the final line, Isabel implies that language has two facets: one, it can create living realities; two, it can exercise control outside the speaker's intentions—that align with the illocutionary and perlocutionary functions, respectively.

  Academic text (2017)

• When the teacher asked if anyone had questions, her illocutionary intent was to encourage student participation during the discussion.

• The speaker's use of humor had a clear illocutionary purpose, aiming to lighten the mood of the audience.

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