perlocutionary love

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to perlocution.

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perlocution +‎ -ary

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Examples

  • David: You may not mean it that way, but the perlocutionary effect could be the same as a put-down.

    On useful tautology DC 2010

  • The perlocutionary success of performance hinges, though, on the possibility of "recognition," a word undoubtedly redolent of continental philosophical contexts not usually containable by this Anglo/American approach.

    Post-Secular Conviviality 2008

  • For expectationalists, a promise is a perlocutionary act, as it's only successful if it actually produces the expectations in the promisee that the promise will be carried out.

    Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych 2009

  • Austin distinguished between several levels of speech act, including these: the locutionary act, the illocutionary act and the perlocutionary act.

    Him 2009

  • In these examples, convincing and frightening are perlocutionary acts.

    Him 2009

  • We know from the theoreticians of pragmatics that there's a useful distinction to be drawn between intended and actual perlocutionary effects, but this is usually discussed with reference to the effect of an utterance on the persons we are talking to.

    Archive 2009-01-01 DC 2009

  • The perlocutionary act is made by means of an illocutionary act, and depends entirely on the hearer's reaction.

    Him 2009

  • We know from the theoreticians of pragmatics that there's a useful distinction to be drawn between intended and actual perlocutionary effects, but this is usually discussed with reference to the effect of an utterance on the persons we are talking to.

    On insults, or not DC 2009

  • Austin probably thought that in virtue of the performative formulas this condition is met by illocutionary but not by perlocutionary act types.

    Him 2009

  • Following Austin, Langton distinguishes between locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts.

    Feminist Philosophy of Language Saul, Jennifer 2007

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