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perlocutionary

perlocutionary adjective: of or pertaining to perlocution.

Adjective

perlocutionary (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to perlocution.
    • 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...2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257
    • Threats and offers have many perlocutionary effects, not all of which determine their effect on freedom.2007, Ian Carter, Matthew H. Kramer, Hillel Steiner, Freedom: a philosophical anthology, page 301

perlocutionary meaning in Tamil

perlocutionary in Tamil

ஏய்ப்புக்குரிய

Origin of perlocutionary

From perlocution + -ary.

Questions about perlocutionary

What does perlocutionary mean?
Perlocutionary means of or pertaining to perlocution.
What is perlocutionary in Tamil?
Perlocutionary in Tamil is ஏய்ப்புக்குரிய. See Perlocutionary meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is perlocutionary?
Perlocutionary is an adjective.

Words near perlocutionary in the dictionary

  1. perlocute
  2. perlocuted
  3. perlocutes
  4. perlocuting
  5. perlocution
  6. perlocutionary
  7. perlocutions
  8. perlodid
  9. perlodids
  10. perloffite
  11. perloir

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