<span class="searchmatch">performative</span> <span class="searchmatch">utterances</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">performative</span> <span class="searchmatch">utterance</span>...
by British philosopher J. L. Austin (1911–1960). <span class="searchmatch">performative</span> <span class="searchmatch">utterance</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">performative</span> <span class="searchmatch">utterances</span>) (philosophy, linguistics) A sentence or other linguistic...
From <span class="searchmatch">perform</span> + -ative. <span class="searchmatch">performative</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">performative</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">performative</span>) (philosophy, linguistics) Being enacted as it is said...
directed toward further refining the goals of the movement, and even for <span class="searchmatch">performative</span> <span class="searchmatch">utterances</span> — futurist proclamations of anger in destructive prose....
enunciado performativo m (plural enunciados performativos) (rhetoric) <span class="searchmatch">performative</span> <span class="searchmatch">utterance</span> (expression which accomplishes something)...
utteraunce, outeraunce; equivalent to utter + -ance. <span class="searchmatch">utterance</span> (countable and uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">utterances</span>) An act of, or the process of, uttering. Synonym:...
characterized by fragmentary <span class="searchmatch">utterances</span> and more silence than a conversation. A surgeon <span class="searchmatch">performing</span> an operation may make empractical <span class="searchmatch">utterances</span> to her assistant to...
The communicative action <span class="searchmatch">performed</span> by a speaker when making an <span class="searchmatch">utterance</span>, where the speaker's intention behind the <span class="searchmatch">utterance</span> is crucial to its meaning...
in the case of actions which are non-linguistic but similar to <span class="searchmatch">performative</span> <span class="searchmatch">utterances</span> in that they are the performance of a conventional action (here...
constate constatively constativeness <span class="searchmatch">performative</span> constative (plural constatives) (linguistics) An <span class="searchmatch">utterance</span> relaying information and likely to be regarded...