Perlocutionary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Perlocutionary is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to perlocution.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to perlocution.
Example Sentences
Threats and offers have many perlocutionary effects, not all of which determine their effect on freedom.
Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include illocutive, locutionary, illocutionary, locutive, perorative, perorational.
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