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Pragmatics » Focus and Content » Speech Acts and Events » IllocutionaryForce

Pragmatics


Illocutionary force

Consider the utterance "I've just made some cookies". What does the speaker want to communicate with this utterance? It could be a statement, an offer, or an explanation (in order to justify the dirty kitchen). Since the utterance includes a certain intention of the speaker, we say that the utterance has an illocutionary force.


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