Back أفعال غير لفظية إنجازية Arabic Illokutionärer Akt German کنش غیربیانی Persian Fonction illocutoire French Illokúciós aktus Hungarian Talfólgin athöfn Icelandic Illocuzione Italian 발화수반행위 Korean Indirekte taolhandelinge LI Illocutionaire handeling Dutch
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.