Perlocutionary act

In speech-act theory, the term illocutionary act refers to the use of a sentence to express an at...

The most obvious examples employ performative or illocutionary verbs (describing the performance ...

The illocutionary force of an utterance is the speaker's intention in producing that utterance. A...

In speech-act theory, illocutionary force refers to a speaker's intention in delivering an uttera...