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  • noun Plural form of perlocution.

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  • Alternatively, perlocutions are actions performed by speaking which require some particular effect of the speech in order to be successful.

    Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych 2009

  • In it Austin defines two sorts of speech acts, or ˜performatives™: illocutions and perlocutions.

    Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych 2009

  • Accordingly in this entry I will consider the relation among speech acts and: semantic content, grammatical mood, speaker-meaning, logically perfect languages, perlocutions, performatives, presuppositions, and implicature.

    Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla 2009

  • Austin called these characteristic aims of speech acts perlocutions (1962, p. 101).

    Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla 2009

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