illocutionary act
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The concept of illocutionary acts was introduced into linguistics by the philosopher J. L. Austin in his investigation of the various aspects of speech acts. In his framework:
=> locution is what was said and meant,
=> illocution is what was done, and
=> perlocution is what happened as a result.
> When somebody says "Is there any salt?" at the dinner table, the illocutionary act is a request: "please give me some salt" even though the locutionary act (the literal sentence) was to ask a question about the presence of salt. The perlocutionary act (the actual effect), might be to cause somebody to pass the salt.
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EDİMBİLİMİ VE DİL ÖĞRETİMİ
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Pragmatics and Language Teaching