- saying something that has power in conversation
- thus very relevant to ⌣ believablity-based learning and ⌬ lingua-rooms
An illocutionary act is the act performed by saying something that has a conventional force, such as requesting, refusing, warning, and complaining.
— 📝 Speech Acts in Interaction — Negotiating Joint Action in a Second Language
- a thing in ◊ speech act
- see also ◊ locutionary act and ◊ perlocutionary act where I don't get entirely how its different