performative

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English

Definitions

noun

A performative utterance.

adjective

Being enacted as it is said.“An example of a performative utterance would be "I name this boat Alfred".”
Being done as a performance in order to create an impression.

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Synonyms

performatory workly exercitive prothesized prophoric philodramatic purported pseudophilosophical phronetic pragmatical figurative postsyntactic pythonic phonophoric apophantic speakerly logophoric

Associated

illocutionary utterance argumentation contradiction rituals discourse sentences gender verbs installation aesthetic aspects

Rhymes

normative informative formative uninformative dormitive formate of

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