| 释义 |
performatory, a. and n.|pəˈfɔːmətərɪ|
[f. as prec.: see -ory2.]
= prec. Hence perˈformatorily adv.
1949Mind LVIII. 359 To make a promise is to perform an act in which language is involved as an integral part... Mr. J. L. Austin distinguishes this as the ‘performatory’ use of language. I am indebted to him for this point. 1949Philosophy XXIV. 90 There are..performatory sentences like ‘I name this ship Shamrock’. 1951Aristotelian Soc. Suppl. Vol. XXV. 207 Group I [sc. the verbs ‘advise’, ‘order’, ‘command’, ‘tell’] can be used performatorily, but Group II [sc. the verbs ‘persuade’, ‘induce’, ‘cause’, ‘get’] cannot; thus I can say ‘I advise you to make yourself scarce before he comes’, but not ‘I persuade you to make yourself scarce before he comes’. 1955J. L. Austin How to do Things with Words (1962) i. 6 Formerly I used ‘performatory’: but ‘performative’ is to be preferred. Ibid. ii. 12 A few simple utterances of the kind known as performatories or performatives. 1966L. J. Cohen Diversity of Meaning (ed. 2) i. 1 Their arguments have often relied on such distinctions as those between customary and indirect meaning, logical words and object words,..or performatory and non-performatory verb-uses. 1967Listener 2 Feb. 162/1 The listener..may have expected a more substantial work than was due to be played... If he perseveres with it, what sounded prefatory can come to sound performatory. |