Indirect Illocution
Indirect Illocution
Indirect illocution is an illocutionary act in which the speaker expresses another illocutionary force other than that literally expressed in the utterance, by relying on:
- shared background knowledge
- principles of conversation, such as the cooperative principle
- convention
- the ability of the addressee to make inferences
Page/s: 25
Source: Searle and Vanderveken 1985
Searle, John, and Daniel Vanderveken. 1985.Foundations of illocutionary logic. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University.
Page/s: 30–32
Source: Searle 1979
Searle, John. 1979.Expression and meaning: Studies in the theory of speech acts. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University.
Page/s: 274
Source: Levinson 1983
Levinson, Stephen C. 1983.Pragmatics. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University.
Broader Terms
More specific terms
- NT4 ↓ Anticipatory Illocution
- NT4 ↓ Hedged Performative
- NT4 ↓ Rhetorical Question
Related terms
- RT⇆ Addressee
- RT⇆ Cooperative Principle
- RT⇆ Illocutionary Force
- RT⇆ Speaker
- RT⇆ Utterance
