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perlocute en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from perlocution.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, transitive, with the effect as object) To achieve a perlocutionary effect.
   • Whether the interactive effect of perlocuting occurs is under the addressee's responsibility. 2012, J.F. Rosenberg, Linguistic Representation, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 11:
   • […] a case in which a question illocuted as a genuine, non-rhetorical question is erroneously perlocuted as a rhetorical question. 1994, Cornelia Ilie, What Else Can I Tell You?, Almqvist & Wiksell International, page 41:
   • Typically, one can illocute in order to perlocute, but not conversely. 2002, Marco Rühl, Arguing and Communicative Asymmetry, Peter Lang Publishing, →ISBN, page 167:

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Relateds

locute · illocute