perlocutionary

Examples

• All

• Persuasion is, of course, a perlocutionary act par excellence.

  Academic text (2001)

• Furthermore, most appropriate literate activities, including sacred ones, must have a readily perceived practical function, a culturally recognized perlocutionary force (n3) which has the potential to affect, direct, or modify behavior in a reader.

  Academic text (1992)

• However, although Austin focuses on the illocutionary force, he also calls attention to the visceral effects of all utterances, whether locutionary or perlocutionary.

  Academic text (2017)

• It assumes that interpreters have practical, pragmatic, and even perlocutionary goals in the exercise of their interpretations.

  Academic text (2001)

• Yet Bible reading is a special activity for Ash Creek women, and one that is also a literate interaction in which God's word is God's voice, and in which scripture provides instructions, axioms, proverbs, parables, and exempla as perlocutionary discourse that women then use to direct family and other social relationships.

  Academic text (1992)

• Her heartfelt story had a strong perlocutionary effect on the listeners, making many of them cry.

• By emphasizing the consequences of climate change, the activist aimed for a perlocutionary response from her audience to take action.

How Effective

overwhelming

414 4.4

compelling

277 5.1

persuasive

100 3.9

perlocutionary

• Formal

9.9

weak

114 1.0

ineffective

83 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology