In the philosophy of language and speech acts theory, performative utterances are sentences which not only describe a given reality, but also change the...

Philosophical Papers 1970, Performative turn Adolf Reinach Austin seems to have thought, controversially, that a performative utterance must be infelicitous...

Performance studies Performative text Performative utterances Speech act Cavanaugh, Jillian R. (10 March 2015). "Performativity". Anthropology. doi:10...

Grammatical aspect Grammatical mood Grammatical tense Grammatical voice Performative utterance Phrasal verb Phrase structure rules Sentence (linguistics) Syntax...

University Press, 2009 Elyse Graham (December 30, 2016), "Magic words: performative utterance in fact and fantasy", Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press...

with Austin's doctrine of the so-called 'performative' and 'constative utterances': an utterance is "performative" if, and only if it is issued in the course...

Austin as part of his theory of speech acts. In his thinking, a performative utterance is neither true nor false, but can instead be deemed felicitous...

the term "speech act" goes back to J. L. Austin's development of performative utterances and his theory of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary...

A performative contradiction (German: performativer Widerspruch) arises when the making of an utterance rests on necessary presuppositions that contradict...

essay "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory," Judith Butler proposes that gender is performative – that...

"hereby" before the non-performative verb see is not coherent because the action of seeing is not performed simply by its utterance. I confer this award...

critical theory, but arises ultimately from linguistic ideas around performative utterances. The term is often applied to a bricolage of other writing styles...

Hadit is male and active is thus not a mere description, but a performative utterance that creates these deities as gendered in the minds of those who...

drafted in the present tense, so that the disposition is itself a performative utterance. That is, a U.S. court will say that "we affirm (or reverse)" the...

developed by John Searle, centers around the idea of the performative, a type of utterance that performs the very action it describes. Speech Act Theory's examination...

Austin's concept of performative utterance requires the supplementary concept of passionate utterance: "A performative utterance is an offer of participation...

(1911–1960) Performative utterance – Category of utterances in philosophy of language Speech act – Utterance that serves a performative function Locutionary...

claim that a "nonserious" performative utterance, as uttered in a play or a poem, say, is "parasitic" upon the true performative and cannot be considered...

Aeryn Sun's use of "frell" here, in terms of its status as a non-performative utterance, and the locutionary and perlocutionary power of the statement....

always a formal act. Indologist George Thompson uses the term "performative utterance" as coined by philosopher J. L. Austin, because the sacca-kiriyā...

English philosopher J. L. Austin, who spoke of speech acts and performative utterances, which are sentences that "do" something while saying something...

March 2025. Jakovljevic, Branislav (2002). "Shattered Back Wall: Performative Utterance of". Theatre Journal. 54 (3). Johns Hopkins University Press: 431–448...

speaking in an accessible manner), as well as performative utterances and the various tasks that language can perform (called "speech acts"). It also has applications...

sometimes deny: that poetry is capable of performative utterance (in particular of commitment-issuing utterance). Tom Paulin, Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation...

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aorist or present expresses an action performed by the act of speaking, like thanking someone (see performative utterance), or, according to another analysis...

directions". Peter Hershock, in discussing these terms in the context of performative utterances, points out the difference between telling someone that one is...

an utterance has in the world, or more specifically, the effect on others. A performative utterance is a sentence where an action being performed is done...

to present information, but also to perform actions. As an utterance, a locutionary act is considered a performative, in which both the audience and the...

decades, it was popular to see theater as more than just drama (see Performative utterance, Postdramatic theatre). At the end of the 20th century, dramatic...