(of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
McIntyre stressed that it’s important to recognize allyship as “a behavior” and “something we work on every day” in the workplace, rather than “something performative” that people can claim to support without the actions to back it up.
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This demonstrates that much of Facebook’s work in this area is performative, rather than effective.
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Though I’m not a comedian or an actor or a musician, I gain a lot of wisdom from the conversations he has with entertainers and am able to relate it to the performative aspects of my work.
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At worst, they’re performative oversimplifications of what makes a successful e-commerce business.
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George and his brother Richard are the founders of Major League Eating, but George is the performative half of the duo.
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It was a technical and performative dance and everyone needed to be on time and in time.
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This, you could say, is the tension at the heart of much of the West's performative art.
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British Dictionary definitions for performative
performative
/ (pəˈfɔːmətɪv) /
adjectivelinguisticsphilosophy
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 senseSee also locutionary act, illocution, perlocution
(as noun)that sentence is a performative
denoting a verb that may be used as the main verb in such an utterance