perlocute

English

Etymology

Back-formation from perlocution.

Verb

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.

Related terms

• locute
• illocute