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performative /pəˈfɔːmətɪv /adjective1Relating to or of the nature of dramatic or artistic performance: films which push past the limits of current performative trends teaching is a performative act...- Exhibition spaces are increasingly transforming into performative spaces.
- Artistic authorship itself, which emerged in the early fifteenth century as a purely performative mode, later learned to manipulate substitution.
- Largely visual and performative, her work always includes her own body in a humorous and engaging way.
1.1Characterized by the performance of a social or cultural role: many feminist theorists have come to stress the contextual and performative aspects of gender...- Since the 1970s, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and gender studies have contributed important models for exploring fashion as a cultural and performative expression of the female subject.
- You'll find the fundamentals of Butler's argument that gender is performative.
- Gender is seen as a “performative ritualized practice”.
1.2 Linguistics & Philosophy Relating to or denoting an utterance by means of which the speaker performs a particular act (e.g. I bet, I apologize, I promise). Often contrasted with constative.Rather, these are performative utterances, which do not so much say something as do something....- He thinks performative sentences do not have truth conditions because they do not describe or report anything.
- But if literary language is performative and if a performative utterance is not true or false but felicitous or infelicitous, what does it mean for a literary utterance to be felicitous or infelicitous?
nounA performative utterance: here statements are not descriptive utterances but performatives...- Performative utterances, or performatives, are not true or false and actually perform the action to which they refer.
- Such speech acts, called performatives, cannot be said to be true or false.
- Illocutionary acts, in addition to covering such explicit performatives as promising, also include statements.
Derivatives performativity /pəfɔːməˈtɪvɪti/ noun ...- From this situation evolved the essential dynamic of Chicano performativity: the dialectic of calling attention to the act of turning away.
- They have become institutions measuring performativity in a very quantitative sense that favours the style of work of certain academics over others.
- Music, because of its performativity, can powerfully shape the nation.
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