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The Perlocutionary Act

The UN described the illocutionary act as incitement to violence. Could you just clarify that a bit by giving some examples of such acts? Well Austin had some fantastic examples and funnily enough if we're interested in incitement to Violence which I mentioned already was part of the UN description one of Austin's examples was the utterance shoot her. Think about one man saying shoot her to another man with respect to a woman who's nearby. You could describe that in a number of different ways.

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