Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

illocutionary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English

Syllables: il-lo-cu-tion-ary
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.

Example Sentences

""I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force."
"Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago."

Etymology

Etymology tree English illocution Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English illocutionary From illocution + -ary.

Derived Forms

illocutionarily illocutionarity nonillocutionary

Phrases

illocutionary act

Frequently Paired Words

locutionary perlocutionary

Synonyms

illocutional

Questions

What does illocutionary mean?: Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
Where does illocutionary come from?: Etymology tree English illocution Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English illocutionary From illocution + -ary.

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