performatives

I like in Queer Theory, Gender Theory where "performatives" are brought up -- statements that are also actions "I now pronounce you man & wife" creates the legal bond between two people, somebody says "I bet $1000" in a poker game creates the bet -- "The woman-ness is never there apart from my actions; I call it into being by creating it moment to moment.

Progress Report 2008

Paradigm examples of performatives were utterances by means of which actions such as baptizing, congratulating and greeting are performed.

Him 2009

Accordingly in this entry I will consider the relation among speech acts and: semantic content, grammatical mood, speaker-meaning, logically perfect languages, perlocutions, performatives, presuppositions, and implicature.

Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla 2009

In it Austin defines two sorts of speech acts, or ˜performatives™: illocutions and perlocutions.

Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych 2009

Austin noted e.g. that assertions are subject to infelicities, just like performatives

Him 2009

Nor are these assertions mere neutral constations; they are exhortative performatives that require the passage from sheer enunciation to action.

Reading, Begging, Paul de Man 2005

Constatives are true or false, depending on their correspondence (or not) with the facts; performatives are actions and, as such, are not true or false, but

Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006

Bach, Kent and Robert M. Harnish, 1992, "How performatives really work: A reply to Searle."

Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006

Instead of pursuing the distinction between performatives and constatives, Austin (1962a) proposed a new three-fold distinction.

Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006

However, a clear delimitation between performatives and constatives proved to be difficult to establish.

Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006