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