perlocutionary

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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."

From perlocution + -ary.

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