performative
performative
definition
noun
Performative utterances, or performatives , are not true or false and actually perform the action to which they refer.
a performative verb, sentence, or utterance.
adjective
Rather, these are performative utterances, which do not so much say something as do something.
relating to or denoting an utterance by means of which the speaker performs a particular act (e.g., I bet , I apologize , I promise ).
example
Yeah, I think we get bogged down in ‘I love you’ as 'performative' utterance.
The poetic medium Poetry need not be written: early poetry was oral, transmitted and preserved through the mnemonic and 'performative' skills of bards with no awareness of script or print.
Rather, these are 'performative' utterances, which do not so much say something as do something.
He thinks 'performative' sentences do not have truth conditions because they do not describe or report anything.
But if literary language is performative and if a 'performative' utterance is not true or false but felicitous or infelicitous, what does it mean for a literary utterance to be felicitous or infelicitous?
Performative utterances, or 'performatives' , are not true or false and actually perform the action to which they refer.
Promises, like most 'performatives' , are seductions; that's their appeal and their limit.
Such speech acts, called 'performatives' , cannot be said to be true or false.
Illocutionary acts, in addition to covering such explicit 'performatives' as promising, also include statements.
At the core of speech act theory are explicit and implicit 'performatives' , sentences that ‘are not used just to say things, i.e. describe states of affairs, but rather actively to do things.’
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