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Etymology edit

Back-formation from perlocution.

Verb edit

perlocute (third-person singular simple present perlocutes, present participle perlocuting, simple past and past participle perlocuted)

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

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