per·for·ma·tive (p r-fôr m-t v)adj. Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising. n. A performative utterance. |
performative [pəˈfɔːmətɪv]
adj Linguistics Philosophy
1. (Linguistics)
a. denoting an utterance that constitutes some act, esp the act described by the verb. For example, I confess that I was there is itself a confession, and so is performative in the narrower sense, while I'd like you to meet … (effecting an introduction) is performative only in the looser sense See also locutionary act, illocution, perlocution
b. (as noun) that sentence is a performative
2. (Linguistics)
a. denoting a verb that may be used as the main verb in such an utterance
b. (as noun) ``promise'' is a performative
performatively adv
Translations
performative [pəˈfɔːmətɪv] N performative (verb) → (verbo m ) performativo m
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