perlocute

present singular third person perlocutes · participle present perlocuting · participle past perlocuted · past perlocuted

1. intransitivetransitivehuman sciencesTo achieve a perlocutionary effect.

   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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   […] 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

   Whether the interactive effect of perlocuting occurs is under the addressee's responsibility.

   2012, J.F. Rosenberg, Linguistic Representation, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 11