exercitive
English
Adjective
exercitive (comparative more exercitive, superlative most exercitive)
- (pragmatics) Having the character of an exercitive act.
Noun
exercitive (plural exercitives)
- (pragmatics, hermeneutics) A speech act in which a decision is made regarding action; examples include orders and grants of permission.
- 1962, J.L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words, 1965 Oxford paperback ed. edition, page 154:
- An exercitive is the giving of a decision in favour of or against a certain course of action, or advocacy of it.
- 2003, Mary Kathryn McGowan, “Conversational Exercitives and the Force of Pornography”, in Philosophy & Public Affairs[2], volume 31, number 2, pages 155-189:
- The hearer's recognition of the speaker's locutionary intention is also an important felicity condition of Austinian exercitives.
Coordinate terms
Other classical types of illocutionary acts
- behabitive
- commissive
- exercitive
- expositive
- verdictive
References
- Cheng Xinghua Applied Linguistics Foreign Language Press Beijing:2008