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- noun Plural form of
commissive .
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All illocutionary forces, in Searle's version of speech act theory, can be grouped into five classes, according to their basic intention or illocutionary point: assertives, commissives, directives, declaratives and expressives.
Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006
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Austin suggested five classes of illocutionary types (or illocutionary verbs): verdictives, exercitives, commissives, behabitives and expositives (Austin 1975, 151 “ 64).
Him 2009
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