perlocute

verb

Etymology

Back-formation from perlocution.

Definitions

  1. To achieve a perlocutionary effect.

    • […] a case in which a question illocuted as a genuine, non-rhetorical question is erroneously perlocuted as a rhetorical question.
    • Typically, one can illocute in order to perlocute, but not conversely.
    • Whether the interactive effect of perlocuting occurs is under the addressee's responsibility.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for perlocute. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA