A communicative plan, that is, a complex illocutionary act, can be accomplished through many possible different locutionary acts.
Both the poet and the theologian want to attribute illocutionary acts to ' subjects ' lacking the equipment for the normally associated locutionary acts.
Locutionary acts which could be fragmented utterances are often neglected or even disregarded by many linguists.
Absent further context, the epistemic meaning is suggested by be well-informed (an epistemic state), and affirm (an epistemic locutionary verb).
These were called the locutionary and perlocutionary interpretations.
It may be thought of, in a sense, as the effect of the illocutionary act via the locutionary act.
This is contrasted with locutionary and illocutionary acts (which are other levels of description, rather than different "types" of speech acts).
An act is "locutionary" when viewed as the production of certain linguistic sounds for example, practicing correct pronunciation in a foreign language.
