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PRONUNCIATION OF LOCUTIONARY ACT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LOCUTIONARY ACT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Locutionary act is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LOCUTIONARY ACT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Locutionary act

In linguistics and the philosophy of mind, a locutionary act is the performance of an utterance, and hence of a speech act. The term equally refers to the surface meaning of an utterance because, according to J. L. Austin's posthumous "How To Do Things With Words", a speech act should be analysed as a locutionary act, as well as an illocutionary act, and in certain cases a further perlocutionary act. For example, my saying to you "Don't go into the water" counts as warning you not to go into the water, and if you heed my warning I have thereby succeeded in persuading you not to go into the water. This taxonomy of speech acts was inherited by John R. Searle, Austin's pupil at Oxford and subsequently an influential exponent of speech act theory.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOCUTIONARY ACT

loculicidal
loculus
locum
locum tenens
locum tenentes
locuplete
locus
locus classicus
locus sigilli
locus standi
locust
locust bean
locust bird
locust tree
locust-like
locusta
locustal
locution
locutionary
locutory

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOCUTIONARY ACT

balancing act
class act
clean up one´s act
double act
enabling act
get in on the act
high-wire act
illocutionary act
juggling act
juristic act
opening act
perlocutionary act
sex act
speech act
support act
vanishing act

Synonyms and antonyms of locutionary act in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «locutionary act» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LOCUTIONARY ACT

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Translator English - Chinese

言内行为
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

locución
570 millions of speakers

English

locutionary act
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

locutionary अधिनियम
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

فعل locutionary
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

locutionary акт
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ato locutório
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্থানচ্যুত আইন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

acte locutionnaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tindakan pencegahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

lokutionären Akt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

発語行為
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

locutionary 행위
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tumindak biasa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hành động locutionary
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இடர் செயல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लोकभाषा कायदा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yerinde hareket
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

atto locutorio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

locutionary akt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

locutionary акт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

act locutionary
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

locutionary πράξη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

locutionary Wet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

locutionary akt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

locutionary handling
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LOCUTIONARY ACT»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LOCUTIONARY ACT» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOCUTIONARY ACT»

Discover the use of locutionary act in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to locutionary act and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Speech Act And Linguistic Communication
Again, the locutionary act is classified into the phonetic, the phatic and the rhetic act. These are subclasses within the locutionary act. However, there is a close connectivity among them. For instance, we can make certain noises without ...
Rishikant Pandey, 2008
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Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics
Austin also seems to suggest that what locutionary act a person performed when he uttered a certain sentence is determined by what he meant by that sentence ( ibid., pp. 98, 100). Presumably, then, to know what S meant by a sentence a is to  ...
Susana Nuccetelli, Gary Seay, 2008
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Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals)
107) that 'the locutionary act embraces doing many things at once to be complete' . Phonetic, phatic and rhetic acts belong together, not like species of a genus, but like parts of a composite. They all have to flow together if a locutionary act is to ...
K T Fann, 2013
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Introduction to Pragmatics
The locutionary act here is to predicate coldness of myself. The locutionary act has to do with “what is said” in a sense rather like that in Chapter 3. What is said, the locutionary act, links referents with predications about those referents.
Betty J. Birner, 2012
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Semantics; an Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, ...
The temporal and spatial coordinates of the speech act are the time of the locutionary act (TLA), the place of the locutionary source (PLS) and the place of the locutionary target (PLT). There are certain verbs in English which refer to instances ...
Danny D. Steinberg, Leon A. Jakobovits, 1971
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Beyond Moral Judgment
He says, for example, that he is inclined to think that "a great many further refinements would be possible and necessary if we were to discuss [the locutionary act] for its own sake" (95); and at one point he even says that a distinction between ...
Alice Crary, 2007
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From Utterances to Speech Acts
Recall that interpreting a locutionary act as having a non-potential content amounts to understanding that it can yield an update of s: that is, that it can be judged true or false. Now, on the speaker's side, successfully performing a constative ...
Mikhail Kissine, 2013
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J. L. Austin on Language
Conversely, if performing a locutionary act is uttering a sentence with a certain meaning, and performing an illocutionary act is uttering a sentence with a certain force, then the force is part of the meaning 'there are no two different acts but two  ...
Brian Garvey, 2014
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Practical Inferences
It might be said, further, that the locutionary act has elements of meaning which have nothing to do with the illocutionary force ; the reference might be a claimant for this status, and it might be claimed that certain elements in the sense are ...
Richard Mervyn Hare, 1972
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Abraham Calov's Doctrine of Vocatio in Its Systematic Context
Any utterance that succeeds in "saying something" forms what Austin calls a " locutionary act." One performs a locutionary act whenever one forms a unit of speech. Austin continues by observing that a speaker accomplishes something more ...
Kenneth G. Appold, 1994

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Locutionary act [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/locutionary-act>. May 2024 ».
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