On Jul 29, 2012, at 8:58 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > 'Performative' used to be a notion in linguistics with a > fairly clear meaning: It referred to an utterance that not > only said something but also *did* what it said: E.g. > 'I now pronounce you man and wife', which is a statement > but also explicitly an act, and the act has a close connection > with the meaning of the statement. Such statements posed a > conceptual problems for certain theories of semantics. > > I expect it's been taken over by the lit-crit biz, > however, and thoroughly muddled.
Yes, that Judith Butler. So muddled a thinker compared to Michael Smith. Doug _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
