perlocutionary

English

Etymology

From perlocution +‎ -ary.

Adjective

perlocutionary (not comparable)

1. 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.