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Meaning of perlocutionary | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Of or pertaining to perlocution.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Čeština perlokuční
Deutsch perlokutionär perlokutiv

Examples

“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.”
“Threats and offers have⟳ many perlocutionary effects, not all of which determine⟳ their effect on freedom.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

perlous Perlsian perm, permanent wave, permanent perm. permabanned permacultural

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