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| A speech act in which a locutionary act corresponds exactly to an illocutionary act. In other words, the speaker's intended meaning matches the referential meaning. |
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| Continuous speech, whether spoken or written, larger than a sentence. |
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| Systematic study of connected text, or units of language above the level of the sentence. |
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| In Speech Act theory, intended or conventional meaning that can accompany a locutionary act within the compass of an utterance. |
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| Meaning implied in addition to the truth-conditional meaning of a proposition. |
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| A speech act in which a locutionary act does not correspond directly to an illocutionary act. |
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| In Speech Act theory, the sounds and words that compose the supposedly referential meaning of an utterance. |
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| Utterance that explicitly states or entails the action that it performs. as in "I now pronounce you husband and wife." |
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| In Speech Act theory, the effect achieved by an utterance on a hearer. |
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