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perlocutionary en · ADJ

Etymology

From perlocution + -ary.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to perlocution.
    • Threats and offers have many perlocutionary effects, not all of which determine their effect on freedom. 2007, Ian Carter, Matthew H. Kramer, Hillel Steiner, Freedom: a philosophical anthology, page 301:
    • 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. 2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257: