illocutionary

Even most libertarians draw some line between locutionary and illocutionary freedoms of speech.

I find studying a locution from illocutionary intent or perlocutionary intent more useful than Assertive, Directive, etc.

Unless Greg Abbott is a king, I don't think the illocutionary act of saying something is illegal makes it so.

Poe’s law strikes again, the bewildering effects of illocutionary force revealed.

Yet a typical grocery purchase is hardly an illocutionary political statement.

One of the impressive results of this to me is that it can capture illocutionary meaning, which is something that language modeling struggled with in the past.

Then using a small bit of magic of transformative grammar rules [2], we can extract the initial sentence (sam smokes habitually), now, we can also seperate this atomic statement from its illocutionary vector, having gotten this knowledge acknowledged by our 'program'.

How do you seek the "best conclusions" without understanding intention, or the illocutionary force, of the speech act?

It's really good at simulating how people react to language, including illocutionary acts like implicatures (the notorious "Are you sure?" causing it to change its answer for example).