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
- the ability of the addressee to make inferences
Kinds
More specific concepts within indirect illocution.
Sources 3
- Searle and Vanderveken 1985, 25
- Searle 1979, 30–32
- Levinson 1983, 274