Definitions
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- noun linguistics The
aim of aspeaker in making anutterance as opposed to themeaning of theterms used.
Etymologies
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From il- ("not") (an assimilated version of in-) + locution ("speech"), from Latin loquor
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Examples
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Hm, that is a very interesting illustration of an illocution, followed by an allocution.
Now, why didn't I think of that! Angry Professor 2009
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Perlocutions are characteristic aims of one or more illocution, but are not themselves illocutions.
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I can both urge and persuade you to shut the door, yet the former is an illocution while the latter is a perlocution.
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Justice Oluwayemi held that the magistrate misdirected himself and might have been confused by the illocution (plea for leniency) by the lawyer to the convict the ex-beauty queen who was a working mother.
Vanguard News 2009
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