Sentences with phrase «performative utterances»

To me, these were speech acts, typical ordinary language practices, performative utterances, that I knew all about from JL Austin's How to Do Things with Words.

Nietzsche talks about the subject as an effect rather than the cause of speech and action, and from that rather existential perspective, I came to see how existence and identity themselves were at stake in performative utterances.

Such performative utterances may still suffer from infelicities, but obviously they have implications for behavior in the world.

These exist as a basis for his performative utterance.

Not exact matches

I have been influenced by those philosophical theologians (Donald Evans and James William McClendon, Jr.) who have used the work of John Austin to remind us that religious discourse has the characteristics of performative rather than constantive utterance.

But if there is a new onlook, its utterance in these words is a genuine performative.

[18] The term «performative» was applied by J L Austin [19] to utterances like warnings and promises, these being at the same timeinstances both of saying and of doing.