Perlocute

Origin

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Full definition of perlocute

Verb

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?
• 2002, Marco Rühl, Arguing and Communicative Asymmetry
• 2012, J.F. Rosenberg, Linguistic Representation

Related terms

• locute
• illocute