illocute

English

Etymology

Back-formation from illocution.

Verb

illocute (third-person singular simple present illocutes, present participle illocuting, simple past and past participle illocuted)

1. (philosophy, pragmatics, intransitive or transitive with the speech act as object) To perform an illocutionary act.
   • 1981, Peter Cole, Radical pragmatics, New York: Academic Press, →OCLC, page 93:

     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.

   • 2012, J.F. Rosenberg, Linguistic Representation, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 11:

     Typically, one can illocute in order to perlocute, but not conversely.

   • 2019, Mari Mikkola, Pornography: A Philosophical Introduction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 66:

     So, we must not conflate consent with nonrefusal: a failure to illocute refusal does not entail that one has illocuted consent to sex instead.

   • 2022 January 27, Mitchell Green, Jan G. Michel, “What Might Machines Mean?”, in Minds and Machines‎^[1], volume 32, pages 323–338:

     […] [S]ome of these refinements also help us make progress on the question whether machines can illocute.

Related terms

• locute
• perlocute