Definition
A direct illocution is an illocutionary act in which only the illocutionary force and propositional content literally expressed by the lexical items and syntactic form of the utterance are communicated.
Sources 4
- Leech 1983, 37–38
- Searle and Vanderveken 1985, 25
- Searle 1979, 30–32
- Levinson 1983, 274