From a former life, I recall that a perlocutionary act is ameaningful speech act designed to haveparticular effects on people who hear them. For example, telling the story of "the little engine that could"has the perlocutionary force of encouraging a child to try to master some task.
: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:14 AM
Subject: RE: Perlocutionary and Illocutionary Speech Acts
Without remembering much more, I remember that a classic text on this is
J.L. Austin's How To Do Things With Words.
Tom Berg
University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota)
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