What is an intended perlocutionary effect?

An intended perlocutionary effect is what a speaker intends an utterance to achieve in an addressee.

Some analysts consider an intended perlocutionary effect to be part of the definition of a type of illocutionary act.

• To inform the addressee
• To get the addressee to do something
• To get the addressee to have a particular expectation

Reiss 1985 41–42

Context for this page:

• Concept module: intended perlocutionary effect
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): I
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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