per·for·ma·tive (pr-fôrm-tv)
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.
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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
THUS THE VOICE OF MAIL ART AS PERFORMATIVE MAIL
UTTERS ITSELF INTO EXIST-STANCE BY BEING SPOKEN FOR....
I DO CONFESS PERFORMATIVE MAIL IS A MEANS TO " A KIND "
AS I TYPE A TYPE OF MAIL ART PERFORMS ITSELF INTO BEING
IN THE FORMATIVE STAGE ON THE EDGE OF PER... <~ periods Pact
of Paper Dolls Cut-OUTs
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From: tamarawyndham <tamarawynd...@yahoo.com>
To: ma-network@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 1:51 pm
Subject: (",) PERFORMATIVE MAIL Re: Live Matter, 2005-2008
PERFORMATIVE MAIL - sounds like an action, rather than an object.
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