perlocution
noun/ˌpɜːləˈkjuːʃn/
/ˌpɜːrləˈkjuːʃn/
[uncountable, countable] (linguistics)- an act of speaking or writing which has an action as its aim, but which does not itself perform that action, for example persuading or convincingWord Origin1950s: from modern Latin perlocutio(n-), from per- ‘throughout’ + locutio(n-) ‘speaking’.
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