Associations to the word «Performative»
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
PERFORMATIVE, adjective. Being enacted as it is said.
PERFORMATIVE, noun. A performative utterance.
PERFORMATIVE UTTERANCE, noun. (philosophy) (linguistics) A sentence or other linguistic expression which, when expressed in an appropriate context, actually does or accomplishes something.
Wise words
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing
them for the first time.