What is indirect illocution?

Definition
	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, and the ability of the addressee to make inferences.

Kinds
	What is an anticipatory illocution? What is a hedged performative? What is a rhetorical question?

Generic
	An indirect illocution is a kind of
	What is an illocutionary act?

Sources
	Searle and Vanderveken 1985 25
	Searle 1979 30–32
	Levinson 1983 274

Context for this page:

Concept module: indirect illocution
In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): I
In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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