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UNSCENTED: STRATEGIES OF PERLOCUTION

If the use of locution is regarded as a term of intrinsic meaning or reference, that is to say distinct from its function and immediate context, then perlocution is that which in itself has an action as its aim, but does not effect or constitute the action, for example persuading or convincing. Hence it is the perlocutionary path of gradual persuasion and displacement that we must visually follow, in order to experience and evaluate the insight wrought in the drawings by the Brazilian-Korean artist Lina Kim. In that they are developed through different …